[openib-general] userspace git trees

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Tue Dec 12 07:07:03 PST 2006


On 07:58 Tue 12 Dec     , Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Finally, it wastes space.
> > 
> > 'git-clone -s' helps to save space.
> 
> BTW, be careful with that: it seems clone -s might lose your data if the repository
> you clone from removes some heads and prunes history.

It is hard to lose data fatally this way. Only when origin repo was
removed completely (then you can lose this old part of history). Use
'git-clone -l' if unsure.

And this still be theoretical discussion - largest userspace tree on OFA
takes 10MB disk space.

Sasha




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