Re: Confused about source code of coreutils

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexander Kahl <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for fixing this, but now I have another question concerning git.
> Is it possible to reduce the whole git repository? I've bzipped it up and got
> 44 MB file while the cvs file was only about 1.5 MB :)
> Or have I done something wrong?

A clone of the git repository contains the whole history, whereas a
checked out cvs repository only contains the files at the head revision.
The full cvs repository has 88MB.  The git repository is already packed,
so it can't be reduced much further, apart from running `git gc
--aggressive'.

Andreas.

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