On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:23:37 +0800 "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Eric, > I kept a mirror of > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > > by a crontab task fetching the updated commits at midnight everyday. > > Yet I found the repository now grows to be 1.2G without checking out > anything. The checked out working tree of this is about 1.5G. There's something wrong in your setup, the entire kernel history should take less than 200M. > I tried "git prune" and "git repack" but it still remains so large. The > trend of the kernel is still going to be enlarged. Thus I'm thinking > of the possibility of a baseline feature. One can totally forget about > the history before that baseline, and start the development there > after. Git provides "shallow" clones which essentially give you that ability today via the --depth option. While it won't automatically determine a baseline, it avoids the need for you to download a tarball first. Sean -- 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
