On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 02:37:45AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Ed Maste: > > > > Any guidance on amount of diskspace and how long it takes to clone the repo ? > > > I see just over 3GB in my clone, including about 2.5GB in the .git directory. > > > If you have only one checkout git will require a bit more disk space > > than svn. However, if you have two or more working trees (say, vanilla > > FreeBSD and multiple work-in-progress trees, or head and stable > > branches, etc.) using "git worktree" will share the .git directory and > > in total will occupy less space than the equivalent in svn. > > > I'd expect clones to take minutes, although cgit-beta is running on a > > lower spec jail host and might have trouble if many people are cloning > > at the same time. > > 2.5 GB in .git directory sounds crazy and incomprehensible to me. 2.5GB is for the full history, if you only care about the main branch, you can clone with: git clone --branch=main --single-branch https... It will cut .git down to about 1.2GB. If you do not care about the history and only want the tip of the branch, you can also use: git clone --branch=main --depth 1 https... This will cut it down even more to about 270MB. -- Mathieu Arnold
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