From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:14:16 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/15] README-sparse-clone: Add a basic writeup of my ideas for sparse clones Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: >> Just an observation. When I ran pack-objects with irrelevant commits >> removed (i.e. try_to_simplify_commit) on Documentation/, I got a 6MB >> pack. When I ran it without commit simplification, I got 16MB pack. >> That's 10MB larger. > > Hmm.  I get 22MB pack for a full clone of git.git and 13 MB for a > sparse clone with Documentation/; that's including all commits too.  I > wonder why our numbers differ by 3 MB.  Weird. Hmm.. just got a fresh alt-git.git from repo.or.cz and did narrow/sparse clone from that. "git clone" reported 16.27MB for both narrow/sparse version. -- Duy