On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:15 AM Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, back to a full clone. Thanks for the "--unshallow" argument, but so > far it has failed twice. I suspect that it's my urtwn interface is bad. > I'll swap it out tomorrow and see it that fixes it. > > I am a bit surprised at how little more space the full clone takes. I was > really expecting it to be much worse. Of course, it will only grow... as > will the sources, themselves. > > Warner, I suggest an immediate update to your mini-git primer. It was > already a bit out of date, but this fix is more urgent with RC on the > horizon. In particular, the "Repositories" at least look old to me. > First quick pass done. Please let me know what you think. You can suggest edits right on the github site (they turn into pull requests) or you can send me suggestions directly. Warner > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: [email protected] > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:55 AM Ed Maste <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:10, Helge Oldach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > A shallow tree is about 1.6G. If you want to patch source (say, from > > > a SA or EN) you certainly also need space for an object tree which is > > > about 4.5G. The total is >6G. > > > > > > I'd say relative to the total required to build, the 1.1G "savings" > from > > > using a shallow versus a full tree (which is about 2.7G) isn't really > > > worth the effort. Plus, you get the a few benefits like full commit > > > history including comments. > > > > Indeed, this is a good point. We can update docs to state: > > > > At present a full clone is required to include the commit count in > > uname. An existing shallow clone can be converted into a full clone by > > running > > > > % git fetch --unshallow > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected] > " > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
