Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759671AbYBWB5E (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:57:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754003AbYBWB45 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:56:57 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:58666 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753915AbYBWB44 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:56:56 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 333 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:56:56 EST From: Junio C Hamano To: Al Viro Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Chase Venters , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about your git habits References: <200802221837.37680.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20080223014445.GK27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20080223014445.GK27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:44:45 +0000") Message-ID: <7vfxvk4f07.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 26 Al Viro 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). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/