Hi Marcus,
It’s unclear what your actual problem is.
If you have trouble downloading 7GB at once due to a slow or flaky connection,
you can fetch earlier git commits to finish the initial repository checkout,
and then fetch more commits in batches.
If you just want a subset of the repository, I recommend you use SVN instead of
Git. (Maybe git supports sparse checkouts these days, i dunno).
If you simply don’t like the repository layout or size, I don’t know how to put
it politely, but it’s unlikely to change due to the low payoff and huge amount
of work involved.
-Brian
> On Mar 31, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Marcus Johnson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I use the git mirror, so I'm not sure how large the main SVN repo is, but the
> git one is huge at like 7 GB.
>
> I think the best way to reduce that amount of space, is by splitting out the
> websites into their own repos, and possibly even the unit tests into their
> own repo as well.
>
> Also, I've had pretty good luck reducing various repo's size running git gc
> --aggressive (it's re-compacts the .pack file) making it 5GB, so obviously
> some more work needs to be done.
>
> I mean, it's just ridiculous trying to download a 7 GB project just to submit
> a few patches for memory related issues.
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