On Tuesday, 13 of November 2007, Mark Lord wrote: > 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. You clone the git repo once. Afterwards, you only update it and that usually doesn't take that much time and a little effort. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
