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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).