On Wed 2008-03-19 07:42:36, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > It will take a while. My .git directory is 7G, and I'd like to do a > > > > backup before playing with git. > > > > > > Ouch, what have you done? It should be about 200MB, not 7GB. > > > > And 10 minutes later, .git directory is 200MB. Thanks! > > It strikes me that the only way I can think of that you could have gotten > a 7GB .git directory without really working at it is if you use one of the > so-called "dumb" git protocols that just copy whole packfiles from > kernel.org when you pull. > > So do you happen to perhaps use http:// or rsync:// when you fetch git > data? That would not only be horribly slow occasionally (you'd fetch I was using rsync... should be fixed now. Thanks! > all-new packs and re-download about 200MB of data when I repack the kernel > repo on kernel.org, which happens about once or twice every release > cycle), but it would also explain how it ballooned to 7GB for you (because > you have all these duplicate packs!). Well, I thought that it is pulling a bit too much, but I attributed that to our fast development ;-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html pomozte zachranit klanovicky les: http://www.ujezdskystrom.info/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
