* Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the --depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git history.] Ingo - 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
