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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:16:16 -0400
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:50:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Now, my copy of Linus' tree was ATM 1.5GiB big...  Slowly it's getting
> scary.

On my laptop:

[bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .
1.5G    .
[bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .git
334M    .git

So it's mostly the checked out working directory and build
stuff.

If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do
cp -al or something.

--b.