Ingo Molnar wrote:
- Mark Lord liml@rtr.ca wrote:
You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6 directory.
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Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download.
and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the --depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git history.]
When creating additional git trees (Linville's wireless-2.6 tree, for example) for driver development, you can save a lot of download bandwidth by using the --reference parameter of git-clone.
Larry