"eric miao" <eric.y.miao@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Did you (re)packed this repository, running "git gc", or "git repack"? Currently git either downloads small packs, or loose objects; it needs to repack to make repository size smaller. BTW. the largest git repository is 1.6G OpenOffice.org conversion, with > 2G checkout, and some large binary files under version control. Mozilla and GCC, other large repos, got under 0.5G IIRC. So kernel should be quite smaller. > 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. There is so called "shallow clone" feature, which allows to clone only part of history. Currently it dupports only --depth, i.e. number of commits from tips; it could I guess support providing tag as delimiter. (You are welcome to implement it ;-). -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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
