Suggestions on working with a linux kernel repo over 2GB?

William Huang_og21zz

Hi,

Our team would like to work do some work related to the Linux kernel. Specifically, we are cloning off of https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux

We would like to host the our work on bitbucket, but it looks like the repo itself is over the 2GB limit which would prevent us from pushing any changes.

Does anyone have suggestions on a workflow for working around this?

 

Thanks 

Edwin Kyalangalilwa

Hi @William Huang ,

An option would be to use --depth option to clone the latest commits and not the full repository history.

Create a shallow clone 

How to Use Git Shallow Clone to Improve Performance 

For example:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git