Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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).

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