From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about your git habits
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxvk4f07.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080223014445.GK27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:44:45 +0000")
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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 0:37 Question about your git habits Chase Venters
2008-02-23 1:26 ` Tommy Thorn
2008-02-23 1:28 ` Steven Walter
2008-02-23 1:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-23 1:44 ` Al Viro
2008-02-23 1:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-23 2:09 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <998d0e4a0802221823h3ba53097gf64fcc2ea826302b@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-23 2:47 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 11:39 ` Charles Bailey
2008-02-23 13:08 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 13:17 ` Charles Bailey
2008-02-23 13:36 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 14:01 ` Charles Bailey
2008-02-23 17:10 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 18:16 ` Charles Bailey
2008-02-23 18:47 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 19:28 ` Charles Bailey
2008-02-23 18:19 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 14:08 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-23 1:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-23 10:39 ` Samuel Tardieu
[not found] ` <998d0e4a0802221736q4e4c3a28l101522912f7d3caf@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-23 2:46 ` J.C. Pizarro
2008-02-23 4:10 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-23 5:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 9:18 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-23 4:39 ` Rene Herman
2008-02-23 8:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-23 9:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-23 13:07 ` Jakub Narebski
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