<div dir="ltr"><div>>>The kernel tar file from "<a href="http://www.kernel.org" target="_blank">www.kernel.org</a>" is around 70MB.<br>>>but when i want to download the kernel using git it seems it's really huge.<br>
>>git shows 1% for 25MB. Is it how it should be or am i missing something?<br><br>This will download a local copy of the <u><i><b>entire</b></i></u> revision history (back to
2.6.12-rc2), which takes a couple hundred megabytes.<br><br></div>So what your experiencing is quite normal :)<br><div><br>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").
<br><br>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.
<p>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). <br><br>If you're interested in history from the bitkeeper days
(before 2.6.12-rc2), that's stored in a seperate repository,
"<b>git://<a href="http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git">git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git</a></b>". </p><p>Reference : <a href="http://landley.net/writing/git-bisect-howto.html">http://landley.net/writing/git-bisect-howto.html</a><br>
</p>Aruna<br></div><div><br><br></div></div>