On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 10 August 2013 11:26, Dr. Trigon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Pywikibot finished GIT migration. Now a question has anybody ever
>> tryed to clone and use the e.g. the pywikibot/compat repo on the TS?
>> If I do, I get and .git folder of about 200MB which nearly fills my
>> home quota. (this is the plain clone - nothing done to/with it yet!!)
>>
>
> Running  git gc --aggressive --prune brings it back from 178M to 14M. As a
> comparison: an SVN checkout of trunk is 34M, of which 15M are externals.
>
> I've CC'ed Chad, who possibly knows whether there is anything we can do to
> improve this on the server side -- is there any way to transfer this
> optimized repository instead of the 200M one?
>

I asked about a solution of the 200M everywhere. The best option is cloning
shallowly

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