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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by rquirk on Friday April 25, 2014 @03:43PM (#7648638)
I bet they check in (or have checked in at some point) 3rd party libraries, jar files, generated files, etc. I battle this every day at $dayjob and we have a multi GB subversion repository with a separate one for the 3rd party binaries. Svn handles this a bit better than the DVCSes, so just checking out the HEAD is smaller than the full history you get in git/hg, and you can clean up some crud a bit. It just lives on the central server, not in everyone's working copy.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by michaelmior on Friday April 25, 2014 @04:01PM (#7648722)
You can clone with a single revision in git. Still ends up being around 2X the size I believe since you have the objects stored for the single revision as well as the working tree.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by Dylan16807 on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:25PM (#7649126)
2X the size of what? The raw files? Assuming little shared data, sure. But svn will make two copies of every file too.
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