Also, removing files from the repo does not save anything with a Git checkout since they are still there in the history.
— Timothy Hatcher > On Mar 31, 2016, at 12:50 PM, Brian Burg <bb...@apple.com> wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto:webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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