[Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
>> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> There are ways to optimize all of this. Most users will not want to
>>> download the full history.
>>
>> Then why are you using git?
>
> I am not most users. I am using git because I think it is the best way
> forward to implement many of the ideas discussed in the strategy wiki.


if you want only the last 3 revisions checked out , it takes about 10
seconds and produces 300k of data.

git clone --depth 3 git://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/KosovoWikipedia.git

du -h gittest/
252K	gittest/

Log file :

Initialized empty Git repository in
/home_data2/2009/10/KosovoWikipedia/gittest/KosovoWikipedia/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 21, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
remote: Total 21 (delta 3), reused 20 (delta 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (21/21), 40.98 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), done.