----- Original Message ----- From: peter boudewijns To: git-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi All, I've been trying to put my filesystem for a very small busybox-based distro into a git-repository. And with succes. The only strange thing I can not get my head around is the following : When making a compressed tarball from the files from the repository (after clone/checkout) I get a very much larger tar.gz-file. Size goes up from 16M to 21M (!?) Has anyone got a clue ? Thanks !!!! PeTer The usual reason is that you 'forgot' that the git repo itself is inside the hidden directory .git at the top level. So you have both your working tree of regular files, and then you have the hidden repo storage - so you have everything twice, and the history as well! Have a look at the 'git archive' command if you want just your your work tree, without the whole repo history. Philip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
