On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, DJ Delorie wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/rsync.html says 17 Gb. > > I just did it, and it's up to 22 Gb.
Thanks for the heads up, DJ! I had a look, and it is, in fact, 184 Gb as of today, or 23 GB. (SCNR. :-) I am applying the patch below. Gerald Index: rsync.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/rsync.html,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 rsync.html --- rsync.html 22 Jan 2009 10:03:54 -0000 1.18 +++ rsync.html 31 Dec 2010 16:25:33 -0000 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <h2>Getting a local copy of GCC repository using rsync</h2> <p>The GCC repository is available at <code>rsync://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-svn</code>. -The whole repository currently takes about 17G of disk space, +The whole repository currently takes about 23GB of disk space, which takes a substantial time to transfer. Subsequent synchronizations will be much faster, though, as rsync uses a smart algorithm to only transfer differences over the network.</p>
