From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:17:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Question about your git habits
Message-ID: <20080223131749.GA5811@hashpling.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.