Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

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> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > That's like 20% of the original, with all the obvious distribution
> > advantages.
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> Btw, does anybody know roughly how much data a initial "cvs co" takes on
> the mozilla repo? Git will obviously get the whole history, and that will
> inevitably be bigger than getting a single check-out, but it's not
> necessarily orders of magnitude bigger.

> It could be that getting a whole git archive is not _that_ much more
> expnsive than getting a single version, considering how well history
> compresses (eg the kernel git arhive isn't orders of magnitude bigger than
> a single compressed tar-ball of the sources).
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> At that point, it's probably a pretty usable alternative.
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> (Although, to be fair, we almost certainly have to improve "git-rev-list
> --objects --all" performance on that thing, since that's going to
> otherwise make it totally impossible to do initial clones using the native
> git protocol, and make git look bad).
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>                         Linus
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