Make the Github Source Code Download Smaller!

Development Suggestions for the Arduino Project
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When I look at the sizes of everything in my arduino-source file, it looks like this:

4.0K    .classpath
4.0K    .gitignore
4.0K    .project
4.0K    readme.txt
12K     todo.txt
40K     license.txt
1.3M    libraries
1.4M    hardware
3.5M    core
13M     app
85M     build
980M    .git
1.1G    .

So. There's less than 15MB of source code, including all the images required. Okay, that's great. There's 85MB of built stuff. Okay, I know executables take up a bit of space. But then I look at the biggest part -- 980 MB just for the .git folder? That's just crazy. When I download the arduino source to patch it, I don't need 7 years' worth of history to come along with it, especially since it is by far the biggest file in my /home directory.

I'm not sure how to do it (perhaps start a new repo and only include things <1 year old), but that .git directory needs to shrink.

2

Git sucks gonads, and the person who thought it up needs stringing up by theirs.

What's wrong with good old CVS? Or, if you want to be posh, SVN?

3

Try "git clone depth=1" - I'm not an expert on git, but google is your friend.

Generally, I find a DVCS pretty useful when messing around with small, tricky
projects; git's kind of a pain, but Mercurial is pretty easy to use for the limited
stuff I use it for. (Personally, I'd also avoid CVS and SVN unless gunpoints
were involved ...)

Will

4

cwrose:
Try "git clone depth=1" - I'm not an expert on git, but google is your friend.

Ah, perfect. That's an excellent workaround; thank you.