From: Jon Smirl Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:48:04 GMT Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git Message-ID: <9e4733910606091848r5fb4d565taabfc5198140daf2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/9/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > That's like 20% of the original, with all the obvious distribution > > advantages. > > 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. 339MB for initial checkout > 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). > > At that point, it's probably a pretty usable alternative. > > (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). > > Linus > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com