Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
mkdir t
cd t
git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
(wait half an hour)
/usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
522732 linux-2.6
You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's
not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a
checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6
directory.
..
Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download.
..
When you compare it to the 60MB tarballs that are published, it's really
not that bad.
..
The tarballs I download are only 45MB.
Cheers
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