Re: Confused about source code of coreutils

[Eric Blake]

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According to Andreas Schwab on 10/21/2007 7:25 AM:
>> 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'.

Or you could use the relatively new git concept of a shallow clone, which
only grabs the recent state of the repository without all the history.
You can't do as much with a shallow clone, but if all you wanted was a
snapshot of the current state, it fits the bill for smaller disk usage.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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