On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Dennis Lee Bieber via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:55:57 +0200, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> declaimed the following:How big a size is the git clone going to pull? By the looks of it I get the impression that the git clone will download every single tag/branch/commit etc ever done and then the git checkout activates the actual tagged file set? If this is correct then the size on disk will be too big.GIT and Mercurial are both "distributed" version control systems. That means that both rely upon creating a local repository from which one performs check-out/check-in operations, and periodically "pushes" the changes to the remote server repository. As I understand https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone you get the "history" of branches/et al, but only get the most recent source for controlled files: """ Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch --remotes), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the cloned repository’s currently active branch. """ But yes, you will have two copies of files if you check-out everything: the local repository, and the working file fetched from said repository.
The same was true for SVN, you always have the original and current version of every file. Michael.
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