Comments on: Git clones vs Shallow Git clones

By: dr.t.vasudevan

dr.t.vasudevan — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:52:59 +0000

quite informative. so apparently nothing to be gained much with shallow repo.
thanks

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By: Simos

Simos — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:21:30 +0000

@Steven: Indeed, I have been tarring the working copy as well.
I just measured the size of the .git/ directories only, they are 1.124 GB

Thanks for the tip, it will be very helpful.

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By: Steven Walter

Steven Walter — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:05:32 +0000

If you’re getting that much compression from bzip2, then it sounds like your repositories aren’t packed very efficiently. Are you tarring only the .git directory, or the .git directory and working copy? The latter is pointless, as the .git directory contains all the information needed to restore the working copy (provided you have no uncommitted changes). Running “git reset –hard” will do this.

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By: Simos

Simos — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:27:13 +0000

@Michael: Ok, now I see. It was a copy-paste typo.

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By: Michael Croes

Michael Croes — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:37:26 +0000

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough… The unit of time is either minutes, or seconds, not (minutes * seconds), because that would make it (time ^ 2).

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By: Simos

Simos — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:24:43 +0000

@Michael: The system that I was running the test on has a very fast connection to the Internet, between 20-30Mbps.
For a typical case with slow home broadband, the speed will definitely slower. It should take about 3-5 hours.

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By: Michael Croes

Michael Croes — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:35:43 +0000

Time (min) 52:19.49s 37:41.48s
Time in (min*s)? Does that make it super-time or something? Nice post for the rest of it.

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By: foo

foo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:05:04 +0000

Yes, daily tarballs of git clones would be nice. You could also make them bare repositories (so they are smaller) and add a README.GNOME.git file to make sure people do git checkout master in them.

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