On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >> >do you tend to clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series > >> >of separate working directories > >> > >> Too time consuming on consumer drives with projects the size of Linux. > > > > git clone -l -s > > > > is not particulary slow... > > How big is a checkout of a single revision of kernel these days, > compared to a well-packed history since v2.6.12-rc2? > > The cost of writing out the work tree files isn't ignorable and > probably more than writing out the repository data (which -s > saves for you). Depends... I'm using ext2 for that and noatime everywhere, so that might change the picture, but IME it's fast enough... As for the size, it gets to ~320Mb on disk, which is comparable to the pack size (~240-odd Mb). - 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
