Know how much to download before clonig

Hi, Is there any way so that i can tell how much i have to download to obtain a full clone (not a shallow one) of a respository?

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:02 AM, arif <aftnix@gmail.com> wrote:

Ask the repository owner to tell you?

There is no information sent by the server about size of repository, so no, you can't really know without having the repository owner tell you through some other side channel.