On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane <aruna.hewapathirane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>The kernel tar file from "www.kernel.org" is around 70MB. >>>but when i want to download the kernel using git it seems it's really >>> huge. >>>git shows 1% for 25MB. Is it how it should be or am i missing something? > > This will download a local copy of the entire revision history (back to > 2.6.12-rc2), which takes a couple hundred megabytes. > > So what your experiencing is quite normal :) > > It extracts the most recent version of all the files into your linux-git > directory, but that's just a snapshot (generally referred to by git people > as your "working copy"). > > The history is actually stored in the subdirectory "linux-git/.git", and the > snapshot can be recreated from that (or changed to match any historical > version) via various git commands. > > You start with an up-to-the-minute copy of the linux kernel source, which > you can use just like an extracted tarball (ignoring the extra files in the > ".git" directory). > You can limit the amount of history you download using the --depth option of git. http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone So for a very small download, you would do something like: $ git clone --depth 1 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
