On 30/01/2023 10:04, Like Xu wrote:
From: Like Xu likexu@tencent.com
With thousands of commits going into mainline each development cycle, the metadata .git folder size is gradually expanding (1GB+), and for some developers (most likely testers) who don't care about the lengthy git-log, they just use git-archive to distribute a certain version of code (~210MB) and rebuild git repository from anywhere for further code changes, e.g.
$ git init && git add . -A
Then unfortunately, the file tracking metadata from the original git-repo using "git add -f" will also be lost, to the point where part of source files wrapped by git-archive may be accidentally cleaned up:
$ git clean -nxdf Would remove Documentation/devicetree/bindings/.yamllint
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230127150225.18148-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.i...
Best regards, Krzysztof