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Re: Question about your git habits

From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2008, 13:17 UTC
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<20080223131749.GA5811@hashpling.org>
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<998d0e4a0802230508w12f236baiaf2d9ab5f364670a@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:08:35PM +0100, J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> 
> But if the repos are aggressively repacked then the bit to bit differences
> are not ~2 MiB.

It shouldn't matter how aggressively the repositories are packed or what the binary differences are between the pack files are. git clone should (with the --reference option) generate a new pack for you with only the missing objects. If these objects are ~52 MiB then a lot has been committed to the repository, but you're not going to be able to get around a big download any other way.

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