Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:

quoted

mkdir t
cd t
git clone 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
(wait half an hour)
/usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
522732  linux-2.6

You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's
not true.  Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a
checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6
directory. 

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Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download.

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When you compare it to the 60MB tarballs that are published, it's really
not that bad.

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The tarballs I download are only 45MB.

Cheers