On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:23:37 +0800
"eric miao" <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi Eric,

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> I kept a mirror of
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> by a crontab task fetching the updated commits at midnight everyday.
> 
> Yet I found the repository now grows to be 1.2G without checking out
> anything. The checked out working tree of this is about 1.5G.

There's something wrong in your setup, the entire kernel history should
take less than 200M.

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> I tried "git prune" and "git repack" but it still remains so large. The
> trend of the kernel is still going to be enlarged. Thus I'm thinking
> of the possibility of a baseline feature. One can totally forget about
> the history before that baseline, and start the development there
> after.

Git provides "shallow" clones which essentially give you that ability
today via the --depth option.  While it won't automatically determine
a baseline, it avoids the need for you to download a tarball first.

Sean
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