{"thread":{"id":"12076","subject":"clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big?","startedAt":"2008-02-13T18:25:45Z","lastAt":"2008-02-13T18:30:59Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Luciano Rocha"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"68665","messageId":"20080213182545.GA14886@bit.office.eurotux.com","threadId":"12076","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big?","fromName":"Luciano Rocha","fromEmail":"luciano@eurotux.com","sentAt":"2008-02-13T18:25:45Z","receivedAt":"2008-02-13T18:25:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"luciano@eurotux.com","avatar":null},"body":"\nHello,\n\nI did today a bare clone of the 2.6.24.y tree of the Linux kernel.\n\nI instructed git to use a local mirror of Linus's tree, but the clone\nended up downloading over 40MB of data:\n\n$ git clone --bare --reference /.src/kernel/linus.git/ \\\n    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git \\\n    2.6.24.y.git\nInitialized empty Git repository in /media/stuff/src/kernel/2.6.24.y.git/\nremote: Counting objects: 15483, done.\nremote: Compressing objects: 100% (14747/14747), done.\nremote: Total 15483 (delta 1795), reused 5236 (delta 632)\nReceiving objects: 100% (15483/15483), 46.30 MiB | 317 KiB/s, done.\nResolving deltas: 100% (1795/1795), done.\n\nI expected a much smaller download, as the difference between the heads\nof both trees are only a few patches (2.6.24 -> 2.6.24.2).\n\nMy git is at version 1.5.4.1.99.g3b933.\n\n-- \nLuciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>\nEurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>\n"},{"id":"68667","messageId":"20080213183059.GA15649@bit.office.eurotux.com","threadId":"12076","inReplyTo":"20080213182545.GA14886@bit.office.eurotux.com","subject":"Re: clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big?","fromName":"Luciano Rocha","fromEmail":"luciano@eurotux.com","sentAt":"2008-02-13T18:30:59Z","receivedAt":"2008-02-13T18:30:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"luciano@eurotux.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:25:45PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote:\n<snip>\n> I expected a much smaller download, as the difference between the heads\n> of both trees are only a few patches (2.6.24 -> 2.6.24.2).\n\nCorrection: as there are only a few patches on 2.6.24.y tree that aren't\nin Linus's. Linus's tree head is now, of course, very much ahead of\n2.6.24.y.\n\n-- \nLuciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>\nEurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>\n"}]}