Re: Will git have a baseline feature or something alike?

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:23:37 +0800
"eric miao" [off-list ref] wrote:


Hi Eric,

I kept a mirror of

http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

by a crontab task fetching the updated commits at midnight everyday.

Yet I found the repository now grows to be 1.2G without checking out
anything. The checked out working tree of this is about 1.5G.

There's something wrong in your setup, the entire kernel history should
take less than 200M.

I tried "git prune" and "git repack" but it still remains so large. The
trend of the kernel is still going to be enlarged. Thus I'm thinking
of the possibility of a baseline feature. One can totally forget about
the history before that baseline, and start the development there
after.

Git provides "shallow" clones which essentially give you that ability
today via the --depth option.  While it won't automatically determine
a baseline, it avoids the need for you to download a tarball first.

Sean