If you just want to install from source or just look at the current code
you can do a:
git clone git://github.com/openstack/nova.git --depth 1
best,
Joe
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looking at nova.git for the first time, I cloned it.
> Surprised that it was so much larger than the others, and too large for
> the size of the source and the amount of history, I tried to compress it.
> That reduced the repository size from nearly 100MiB to just 30:
>
> $ git clone git://github.com/openstack/nova.git
> $ git-repo-compress .git
> 97M .git
> Counting objects: 101858, done.
> Delta compression using up to 12 threads.
> Compressing objects: 100% (100594/100594), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (101858/101858), done.
> Total 101858 (delta 80708), reused 18388 (delta 0)
> 150.91user 81.16system 0:35.05elapsed 662%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 324536maxresident)k
> 29056inputs+59312outputs (381major+252932minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> started Tue 2012-02-28 16:40:42 +0100
> Tue 2012-02-28 16:41:17 +0100
> 30M .git
>
> The command I used is just a wrapper around git repack:
>
> git-repo-compress () {
> local d=$1
> du -sh "$d"
> start=$(date)
> env time git --git-dir="$d" repack -afd --window=250 --depth=250
> echo started $start
> date
> du -sh "$d"
> }
>
> Future cloners (and those who push, too) will be
> grateful if someone with access to the server would
> do the same thing to the public nova.git repository.
> Compressing the repo improves server performance, too.
>
> These other repositories compressed well, too:
> size of .git repo (MiB)
> current compressed
> swift 9.8M 2.3M
> keystone 11M 9.9M
> horizon 4.1M 3.2M
> glance 5.2M 1.9M
> quantum 3.0M 1.4M
>
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