* Mark Lord [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

..

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

and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone 
of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the 
--depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to 
bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git 
history.]

	Ingo