git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Git vs Monotone

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Aug 1, 2008, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID
<86abfxawgu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.1.10.0807311244240.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
Show 11 quoted lines
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Craig L. Ching wrote:
>> 
>> It's possible he's doing that, but it's also possible he just isn't that
>> familiar with git.
>
> Possible. But it really sounded like he didn't even try. Because quite 
> frankly, if he had even bothered to _try_, he wouldn't have gotten the 
> numbers he got.
>
> The fact is, even without "-s", a local clone will do hardlinks for the 
> database.

That means that git takes up less disk space. It does not mean that it looks like it.

If you do a df before and afterwards, you'll notice (but that does not seem reliable as other changed might happen in the file system). If you do "du" into the individual clones, you won't notice it.

It is quite plausible that he might have tried it, but misinterpreted the results.

It is a similar situation with size estimates when sparse files are involved: they may take up less space than what it looks like.

-- 
David Kastrup
Previous: Robin RosenbergNext: Craig L. Ching
Message 16 of 33 in “Git vs Monotone”
  1. Sverre RabbelierJul 31, 2008
  2. Stephen R. van den BergJul 31, 2008
  3. Petr BaudisJul 31, 2008
  4. Jeff KingJul 31, 2008
  5. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  6. Sverre RabbelierJul 31, 2008
  7. Jeff KingJul 31, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  9. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2008
  12. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  13. Felipe ContrerasAug 23, 2008
  14. Blum, RobertJul 31, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergAug 10, 2008
  16. David KastrupAug 1, 2008
  17. Monotone workflow compared to Git workflow ( was RE: Git vs Monotone)Craig L. Ching, Jul 31, 2008
  18. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  19. Shawn O. PearceJul 31, 2008
  20. Craig L. ChingJul 31, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkJul 31, 2008
  22. Avery PennarunJul 31, 2008
  23. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  24. Martin LanghoffJul 31, 2008
  25. Linus TorvaldsJul 31, 2008
  26. Dmitry TorokhovAug 1, 2008
  27. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
  28. Linus TorvaldsAug 1, 2008
  29. Sean EstabrooksJul 31, 2008
  30. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2008
  31. Theodore TsoJul 31, 2008
  32. Sverre RabbelierAug 1, 2008
  33. Daniel BarkalowAug 1, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.