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Re: git-clone --how-much-disk-space-will-this-cost-me? [--depth n]

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JHJean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Date
Dec 16, 2008, 02:07 UTC
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jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> JH> So maybe what you really want is an ETA display during the cloning
> JH> process?  Sounds like a good idea to me.
> 
> ETA implies that git has an estimate of what is going to happen.

Aren't you implying this too from the beginning? But reading Jeff's reply, there seems to be a reason why there isn't an ETA already.

However, since some repositories get cloned in the same way very often, there could be some cache that keeps these size information around for any subsequent identical clones. The server could then send a hint about the expected amount of data at the beginning.

jlh
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