On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, so you don't offer rsync. And the closest I can get to
> $ du -sh med*
> 17M     mediawiki-1.18.2.tar.gz
> 72M     mediawiki-1.18.2

Well if you want the vanilla install without the ability to update via
version control, of course that's going to be smaller. That's no
different now from how it was under SVN.

> is your 99M product, which I hope you could document on
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git
> Apparently it involves a --bare option.
>

No. Most people don't want --bare anyway...they're likely
to get confused.

> And how might one update it occasionally without accruing things I will
> not need. I.e., I just want to do an rsync.
>

`git pull`

> I guess I will just have to accept some bloat with git over this.
> I guess there is no way to just get the same content without using git
> in some way that it is not intended.
>

The amount of "bloat" we're talking about here is between
20 and 30M, at most. I see zero problem here.

Would you rather have the initial conversions I did, that are
around 6.5G of bloat? ;-)

-Chad

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