Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:50:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

quoted

Now, my copy of Linus' tree was ATM 1.5GiB big...  Slowly it's getting
scary.

On my laptop:

[bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .
1.5G    .
[bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .git
334M    .git

So it's mostly the checked out working directory and build
stuff.

If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do
cp -al or something.

How about suggesting "clone -l -s"?