On 31 May 2014 16:08, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
270MB is gigantic for a git repo.
But it's not an issue /per se/. The issue is slow clones/slow pulls, not so much the 270MB on your hard drive. The slow clones/pulls can be improved by re-packing the git repository on the server side -- this helped significantly for the pywikibot repositories. I'm not sure if this has been attempted for mw/core yet.