size of git repository (was Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs)

Pavel Machek
2007-11-18T12:44:27Z

On Tue 2007-11-13 12:50:08, Mark Lord wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >for example git-bisect was godsent. I remember that
> >years ago bisection of a bug was a very laborous task
> >so that it was only used as a final, last-ditch
> >approach for really nasty bugs. Today we can
> >autonomouly bisect build bugs via a simple shell
> >command around "git-bisect run", without any human
> >interaction! This freed up testing resources
> ..
>
> It's only a godsend for the few people who happen to be
> kernel developers
> and who happen to already use git.
>
> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone
> else.

Hmmm, clean-cg is 7.7G on my machine, and yes I tried
git-prune-packed. What am I doing wrong?
Pavel
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