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

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:26:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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

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

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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"?

If you really want to share as much as possible, then I guess you want
to share the working trees too, since (as evidenced above), they're at
least as large as the compressed history.

Though actually on a second look, clone -l -s produces something that's
only 377M.  I hadn't realized how much space the build output takes up.
So judging from du the 1.5G Guennadi Liakhovetski mentions above seems
to break down into something like:

	330M .git
	380M working tree
	750M build output

--b.