Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: Question about your git habits | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:04 -0800 |
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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).
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