From: Anders G. <and...@gi...> - 2009-09-03 22:09:52
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > A user who isn't interested in the history can also make a shallow clone > with git which I would expect to be only very slightly larger than the > working copy itself, enabling the user to save disk space by > sacrificing functionality he/she isn't interested in. AFAIK there is no > such choice if using SVN. An update on the shallow clone: git keeps a compressed pack of the data in addition to the working copy. When cloning the current fgdata git repository from the map server with depth 1 this overhead adds up to about 1 GB. More overhead than I hoped for but still less than what one would get with SVN. It is possible to create and work on local branches even in a shallow clone. Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ |