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SubjectRe: Question about your git habits
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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).

Depends... I'm using ext2 for that and noatime everywhere, so that might
change the picture, but IME it's fast enough... As for the size, it gets
to ~320Mb on disk, which is comparable to the pack size (~240-odd Mb).


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