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Jason Swails
Yeah, and depending on size, that can be a major problem. While git
_will_ let you make a shallow clone, it won't let you push from that,
so it's good only for read-only repositories (we use git to manage
software deployments at work - shallow clones are perfect) or for
working with patch files.
Hmm. ~/cpython/.hg is 200MB+, but ~/pike/.git is only 86MB. Does
Mercurial compress its content? A tar.gz of each comes down, but only
to ~170MB and ~75MB respectively, so I'm guessing the bulk of it is
already compressed. But 200MB for cpython seems like a lot.
[I am assuming that you have run "git gc --aggressive" before giving
those figures]
Off-topic, but this is a bad idea in most cases. This is a post including
an email from Torvalds proclaiming how and why git gc --aggressive is dumb
in 99% of cases and should rarely be used:
http://metalinguist.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-woes-of-git-gc-aggressive-and-how-git-deltas-work/
All the best,
Jason