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Re: why is my repo size ten times bigger than what I expected?

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Mar 5, 2011, 12:57 UTC
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Ruben Laguna <ruben.laguna@gmail.com> writes:
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> also cloning the repo doesn't change a thing
>
> $ git clone en4j en4j_xx
> Cloning into en4j_xx...
> done.
> $ cd en4j_xx
> $ du -sh .git
>  87M    .git
>
> any other idea?

Please use file://$PWD/en4j as URL, otherwise git clone just hard links everything.

Andreas.
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  1. Ruben LagunaMar 5, 2011
  2. Pascal ObryMar 5, 2011
  3. Jonathan del StrotherMar 5, 2011
  4. Ruben LagunaMar 5, 2011
  5. Andreas SchwabMar 5, 2011
  6. Ruben LagunaMar 7, 2011
  7. Phillip SusiMar 8, 2011
  8. Tor Arvid LundMar 8, 2011
  9. Ruben LagunaMar 9, 2011
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