From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:16:16 GMT
Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Message-ID: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0703292225100.10351@poirot.grange>

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.

--b.