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[PATCH 2/2] user-manual: Update download size for Git and the kernel

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W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Jun 19, 2013, 01:55 UTC
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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>

They've grown since d19fbc3 (Documentation: add git user's manual, 2007-01-07) when the stats were initially added. I've rounded download sizes up to the nearest power of ten MiB to decrease the precision and give a bit of growing room. Exact sizes:

  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/.git/
  remote: Counting objects: 156872, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40826/40826), done.
  remote: Total 156872 (delta 115322), reused 155492 (delta 114094)
  Receiving objects: 100% (156872/156872), 37.29 MiB | 7.54 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (115322/115322), done.
  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/linux/.git/
  remote: Counting objects: 3057404, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (474769/474769), done.
  Receiving objects: 100% (3057404/3057404), 634.33 MiB | 27.95 MiB/s, done.
  remote: Total 3057404 (delta 2570385), reused 3040910 (delta 2554408)
  Resolving deltas: 100% (2570385/2570385), done.
  Checking out files: 100% (43012/43012), done.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index cd9941a..ffc4e1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ download a copy of an existing repository.  If you don't already have a
 project in mind, here are some interesting examples:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
-	# Git itself (approx. 10MB download):
+	# Git itself (approx. 40MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
-	# the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
+	# the Linux kernel (approx. 640MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
 ------------------------------------------------
 
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  2. 1/2 Documentation: Update 'linux-2.6.git' -> 'linux.git'W. Trevor King, Jun 19, 2013
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  8. 0/4 Update linux-2.6.git location and related examplesW. Trevor King, Jun 22, 2013
  9. 1/4 doc/clone: Remove the '--bare -l -s' exampleW. Trevor King, Jun 22, 2013
  10. 2/4 doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference exampleW. Trevor King, Jun 22, 2013
  11. 3/4 Documentation: Update the NFS remote examples to use the staging repoW. Trevor King, Jun 22, 2013
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  16. 2/2 user-manual: Update download size for Git and the kernelW. Trevor King, Jun 19, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2013
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