Problem using git

[Andev]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Aruna Hewapathirane
<aruna.hewapathirane at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>The kernel tar file from "www.kernel.org" is around 70MB.
>>>but when i want to download the kernel using git it seems it's really
>>> huge.
>>>git shows 1% for 25MB. Is it how it should be or am i missing something?
>
> This will download a local copy of the entire revision history (back to
> 2.6.12-rc2), which takes a couple hundred megabytes.
>
> So what your experiencing is quite normal :)
>
> It extracts the most recent version of all the files into your linux-git
> directory, but that's just a snapshot (generally referred to by git people
> as your "working copy").
>
> The history is actually stored in the subdirectory "linux-git/.git", and the
> snapshot can be recreated from that (or changed to match any historical
> version) via various git commands.
>
> You start with an up-to-the-minute copy of the linux kernel source, which
> you can use just like an extracted tarball (ignoring the extra files in the
> ".git" directory).
>

You can limit the amount of history you download using the --depth
option of git.

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

So for a very small download, you would do something like:

$ git clone --depth 1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git