From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:26:10 GMT
Subject: Re: basics... when reading docs doesn't help
Message-ID: <7vabxv3fnx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070329211616.GH6143@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> 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.

How about suggesting "clone -l -s"?