# Know how much to download before clonig

2 messages from 2012-11-24 to 2012-11-24. Participants: arif, Shawn Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32187

## arif, 2012-11-24 12:02

Subject: Know how much to download before clonig
Message-ID: <k8qd1l$l7o$1@ger.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/k8qd1l%24l7o%241%40ger.gmane.org

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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?
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Cheers
arif

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## Shawn Pearce, 2012-11-24 18:10

Subject: Re: Know how much to download before clonig
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJvnDkbEW4u_c3xC9YUQwg=YCxLA2H+GGXTKm2fC61ooUg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJo%3DhJvnDkbEW4u_c3xC9YUQwg%3DYCxLA2H%2BGGXTKm2fC61ooUg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <k8qd1l$l7o$1@ger.gmane.org>

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

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.

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