Re: git sparse checkout repo size

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM, gaoyong pan <pan.gaoyong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use sparse checkout to checkout out two small files(8M total) from a
> large repo (~2G), and then check the whole repo size is about 1.2G, it
> reduces about 0.8G repo size, can you tell me how to reduce it much
> more?

If history does not really matter to you, use shallow clone. Sparse
checkout is more about worktree size, not repo size. The ideal
solution would be narrow/sparse clone where you only fetch history of
your two files (plus necessary trees and commits) but that won't come
this year.
-- 
Duy
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