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 <bumblebritche...@gmail.com> > 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. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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