Hi, On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, David Symonds wrote: > On Feb 10, 2008 4:08 AM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Marco Costalba wrote: > > > > > Linux git repository is not very big and can be downloaded with > > > easy. On the other end Linux history spans many more years then the > > > repo does. > > > > > > The design choice here is two have *two repositories*, one with > > > recent stuff and one historical, with stuff older then version > > > 2.6.12 > > > > I do not think that this is an option: Jan already tried a shallow > > clone (which would amount to something like what you propose), and it > > was still too large. > > I think that was still pulling all the branches, so a shallow clone of > just a couple of branches might be feasible. Indeed: $ git ls-remote git://o3-build.services.openoffice.org/git/ooo.git|wc -l 3970 $ git ls-remote --heads git://o3-build.services.openoffice.org/git/ooo.git| wc -l 751 Fetching just master is a little hard on the server (it spends quite a lot of time deltifying -- minutes! -- especially between 80% and 95%, and indexing is even slower), but other than that: $ /usr/bin/time git fetch --depth=1 \ git://o3-build.services.openoffice.org/git/ooo.git \ master:refs/remotes/origin/master warning: no common commits remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 79934 objects. remote: Deltifying 79934 objects... remote: 100% (79934/79934) done Indexing 79934 objects... remote: Total 79934 (delta 34549), reused 51323 (delta 20737) 100% (79934/79934) done Resolving 34549 deltas... 100% (34549/34549) done * refs/remotes/origin/master: storing branch 'master' of git://o3-build.services.openoffice.org/git/ooo commit: 29990e4 46.48user 4.60system 16:48.29elapsed 5%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+941205minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ du .git/objects/pack/ 464688 .git/objects/pack/ $ /usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250 Generating pack... Done counting 79934 objects. Deltifying 79934 objects... 100% (79934/79934) done Writing 79934 objects... 100% (79934/79934) done Total 79934 (delta 40013), reused 0 (delta 0) Pack pack-350e4edca93ee75ef3d85269284a24775bf6b24f created. Removing unused objects 100%... Done. 1869.78user 6.66system 31:36.50elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (2031major+1753824minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ du .git/objects/pack/ 454636 .git/objects/pack/ Of course, the clone time would be reduced dramatically if the repository you clone from has only "master", and is fully (re-)packed. So I was not completely correct in my assumption that a clear cut a la linux-2.6 (possibly grafting historical-linux) would not help. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
