From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Bailey Subject: Re: Question about your git habits Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:17:49 +0000 Message-ID: <20080223131749.GA5811@hashpling.org> References: <200802221837.37680.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20080223014445.GK27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <7vfxvk4f07.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080223020913.GL27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <998d0e4a0802221823h3ba53097gf64fcc2ea826302b@mail.gmail.com> <998d0e4a0802221847m431aa136xa217333b0517b962@mail.gmail.com> <20080223113952.GA4936@hashpling.org> <998d0e4a0802230508w12f236baiaf2d9ab5f364670a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: LKML , git@vger.kernel.org To: "J.C. Pizarro" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 23 14:18:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSuH9-0000J2-QX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:18:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753758AbYBWNSA (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:18:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753777AbYBWNSA (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:18:00 -0500 Received: from pih-relay06.plus.net ([212.159.14.133]:46873 "EHLO pih-relay06.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753624AbYBWNR7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:17:59 -0500 Received: from [212.159.69.125] (helo=hashpling.plus.com) by pih-relay06.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JSuGL-0006x8-Ut; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:17:58 +0000 Received: from fermat.hashpling.org (fermat.hashpling.org [127.0.0.1]) by hashpling.plus.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m1NDHou8006699; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:17:50 GMT Received: (from charles@localhost) by fermat.hashpling.org (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id m1NDHnd4006698; Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:17:49 GMT Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <998d0e4a0802230508w12f236baiaf2d9ab5f364670a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Plusnet-Relay: 243ca5111fa1e5deae0cdbdc9909802a Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:08:35PM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote: > > But if the repos are aggressively repacked then the bit to bit differences > are not ~2 MiB. It shouldn't matter how aggressively the repositories are packed or what the binary differences are between the pack files are. git clone should (with the --reference option) generate a new pack for you with only the missing objects. If these objects are ~52 MiB then a lot has been committed to the repository, but you're not going to be able to get around a big download any other way.