# clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big? 2 messages from 2008-02-13 to 2008-02-13. Participants: Luciano Rocha. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12076 ## Luciano Rocha, 2008-02-13 18:25 Subject: clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big? Message-ID: <20080213182545.GA14886@bit.office.eurotux.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080213182545.GA14886%40bit.office.eurotux.com ``` Hello, I did today a bare clone of the 2.6.24.y tree of the Linux kernel. I instructed git to use a local mirror of Linus's tree, but the clone ended up downloading over 40MB of data: $ git clone --bare --reference /.src/kernel/linus.git/ \ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git \ 2.6.24.y.git Initialized empty Git repository in /media/stuff/src/kernel/2.6.24.y.git/ remote: Counting objects: 15483, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14747/14747), done. remote: Total 15483 (delta 1795), reused 5236 (delta 632) Receiving objects: 100% (15483/15483), 46.30 MiB | 317 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1795/1795), done. I expected a much smaller download, as the difference between the heads of both trees are only a few patches (2.6.24 -> 2.6.24.2). My git is at version 1.5.4.1.99.g3b933. -- Luciano Rocha Eurotux Informática, S.A. ``` ## Luciano Rocha, 2008-02-13 18:30 Subject: Re: clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big? Message-ID: <20080213183059.GA15649@bit.office.eurotux.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080213183059.GA15649%40bit.office.eurotux.com In-Reply-To: <20080213182545.GA14886@bit.office.eurotux.com> ``` On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:25:45PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote: > I expected a much smaller download, as the difference between the heads > of both trees are only a few patches (2.6.24 -> 2.6.24.2). Correction: as there are only a few patches on 2.6.24.y tree that aren't in Linus's. Linus's tree head is now, of course, very much ahead of 2.6.24.y. -- Luciano Rocha Eurotux Informática, S.A. ```