Re: Question about your git habits

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:47:07AM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> On 2008/2/23, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  >  > Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> writes:
>  >  >
>  >  > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>  >  > >
>  >  > >> >do you tend to clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series
>  >  > >> >of separate working directories
>  >  > >>
>  >  > >> Too time consuming on consumer drives with projects the size of Linux.
>  >  > >
>  >  > > git clone -l -s
>  >  > >
>  >  > > is not particulary slow...
>  >  >
>  >  > How big is a checkout of a single revision of kernel these days,
>  >  > compared to a well-packed history since v2.6.12-rc2?
>  >  >
>  >  > The cost of writing out the work tree files isn't ignorable and
>  >  > probably more than writing out the repository data (which -s
>  >  > saves for you).
>  >
>  >
>  > Depends...  I'm using ext2 for that and noatime everywhere, so that might
>  >  change the picture, but IME it's fast enough...  As for the size, it gets
>  >  to ~320Mb on disk, which is comparable to the pack size (~240-odd Mb).
> 
> 
> Yesterday, i had git cloned git://foo.com/bar.git   ( 777 MiB )
>  Today, i've git cloned git://foo.com/bar.git   ( 779 MiB )

Why do you need to clone it again ? Just git fetch from it.

Mike