Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:46:54 -0400

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:26:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:50:51PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> >> Now, my copy of Linus' tree was ATM 1.5GiB big...  Slowly it's getting
> >> scary.
> >
> > On my laptop:
> >
> > [bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .
> > 1.5G    .
> > [bfields@pad linux]$ du -hs .git
> > 334M    .git
> >
> > So it's mostly the checked out working directory and build
> > stuff.
> >
> > If you really need a ton of build trees then you might just want to do
> > cp -al or something.
> 
> How about suggesting "clone -l -s"?

If you really want to share as much as possible, then I guess you want
to share the working trees too, since (as evidenced above), they're at
least as large as the compressed history.

Though actually on a second look, clone -l -s produces something that's
only 377M.  I hadn't realized how much space the build output takes up.
So judging from du the 1.5G Guennadi Liakhovetski mentions above seems
to break down into something like:

	330M .git
	380M working tree
	750M build output

--b.