Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Craig L. Ching wrote: >> >> It's possible he's doing that, but it's also possible he just isn't that >> familiar with git. > > Possible. But it really sounded like he didn't even try. Because quite > frankly, if he had even bothered to _try_, he wouldn't have gotten the > numbers he got. > > The fact is, even without "-s", a local clone will do hardlinks for the > database. That means that git takes up less disk space. It does not mean that it looks like it. If you do a df before and afterwards, you'll notice (but that does not seem reliable as other changed might happen in the file system). If you do "du" into the individual clones, you won't notice it. It is quite plausible that he might have tried it, but misinterpreted the results. It is a similar situation with size estimates when sparse files are involved: they may take up less space than what it looks like. -- David Kastrup -- 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
