On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 19:44 +0000, Martin Spott wrote: > "Alan Teeder" wrote: > > > New flightgear git users are faced with an initial download of about 10gb > > just to get started. > > Currently the "fgdata" GIT repo has approx. 4.9 GByte, > > Martin.
Hi Martin, Alan, Bertrand, et al... I guess we each have a 'different' way of measuring things ;=)) This is back on Sep 1, and it grows every day... /media/Disk2/FG/fg20$ dirdate fgdata Processed 9130 directories, 59899 files, 11,281,006,933 bytes. Latest : fgdata/.git/index 2012/08/01 16:08:21, of 59899 files. /media/Disk2/FG/fg20$ dirsize fgdata Doing du -b -s fgdata... moment... Total of [fgdata] = 11,298,718,037 bytes (10.52GB) Ok, now I know some MORE git commands that reduce this on disk size, thanks Bertrand, $ git repack $ git gc $ git prune but that does not stop the initial download into fgdata/.git /media/Disk2/FG/fg20/fgdata$ dirsize .git Doing du -b -s .git... moment... Total of [.git] = 4,419,875,575 bytes (4.12GB) It seems a shame all the discussion I saw about somehow splitting this 4-5GB download came to nothing ;=(( It seems 'some' absolutely wanted to keep a single git command to get it ALL... while I would see no trouble in a simple clean split... like - $ git clone <base-repo> fgdata $ cd fgdata $ git clone <Aircraft-repo> Aircraft /media/Disk2/FG/fg20/fgdata$ dirsize Aircraft Doing du -b -s Aircraft... moment... Total of [Aircraft] = 5,879,186,664 bytes (5.48GB) so assume the .git portion of this would be similarly about half... But that does not stop the BIG initial downloads, just splits it into 2, so perhaps better - $ git clone <base-repo> fgdata also includes a dozen or so Aircraft, like the windows release packages... Then I go somewhere else to ADD Aircraft, when, if I want... Perhaps a nice little GUI app, that lets me choose which aircraft I want to add... maybe does a download of a zip file, and continues to unzip it into - ..../fgdata/Aircraft Something I think Pete was working on... Or into a 'separate' folder since I think we do now support multiple 'aircraft' directories, or should if we don't... And it would be nice if that app could also download from other people's 'hangars'... So you can see I am strongly with Alan on this... this topic needs to be continued, and resolved... BTW, my makefg script also frequently FAILS on fgdata - clone or pull... So much so that I usually now always do that manually... seems git does not like to be 'managed' in a script... Regards, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
