3 weeks ago • •
Makes you wonder how much of that history is actually necessary. I mean sure it's necessary for posterity, but how much smaller would the repo be if we only kept the last 10 years?
Something something, Ship of Theseus.
@Steve Dinn @nixCraft 🐧 You can choose your depth when you clone it.
It must have been a while since I checked out the linux repo. The last time I checked, the .git was smaller than the checked-out directories. 😅
(thanks to deltas, compression and only a few files instead of thousands of inodes)
Steve Dinn
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Makes you wonder how much of that history is actually necessary. I mean sure it's necessary for posterity, but how much smaller would the repo be if we only kept the last 10 years?
Something something, Ship of Theseus.
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in reply to Steve Dinn • • •@Steve Dinn @nixCraft 🐧 You can choose your depth when you clone it.
It must have been a while since I checked out the linux repo. The last time I checked, the .git was smaller than the checked-out directories. 😅
(thanks to deltas, compression and only a few files instead of thousands of inodes)