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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 15:29:44 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Fun fact: 5.2GB out of 6.7GB of the #Linux kernel's repository is commit history, and only 1.5GB is the kernel itself. #opensource https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/1cff7jx/fun_fact_52gb_out_of_67gb_of_the_linux_kernels/

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 15:29:42 JST clacke

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     • Steve Dinn 🇨🇦

     @steve @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)

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     Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 (steve@social.dinn.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 15:29:44 JST Steve Dinn 🇨🇦

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     @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.