Re: github.com/NetBSD/src 5 days old?

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 18/05/2020 14:03, matthew sporleder wrote:

> If you want small and fast you can use shallow clone and, although you
> get the entire tree's bundle, it is small and fast.
> You can then use --sparse to build a "sparse" (kernel only or
> whatever) limited checkout (aka working dir) -- (new git feature--
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout  /
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout  ) / I don't
> know about mercurial's version of this
Its also not worth getting too hung up on small systems being able to 
check out the source code. Given the memory hog that is GCC these days 
chances are if you can't check out the source tree you probably can't 
compile it anyway as GCC will need more memory than your system has.

Mike