[debbugs-tracker] bug#23990: closed (Doc. fix: Update repository weight)

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> Doc. fix: Update repository weight
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> Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:18:36 +0900 (JST)
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> Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)
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> The size of the grep repository is out of date.
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> |#> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/grep
> |#> du -bs grep
> 4670595 grep
> |#> cd grep && ./bootstrap && cd ..
> |#> du -bs grep
> 89227609        grep
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> > From 76ac2086bdec8e0aeeec60396bf31214a59b6d99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:10:17 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] ;* HACKING (Use the latest upstream sources): Update
>  repository weight
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>  HACKING | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
> index a4ab327..fb1ed8d 100644
> --- a/HACKING
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> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ You can get a copy of the latest with this command:
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>  That downloads the entire repository, including revision control history
>  dating back to 1991.  The repository (the part you download, and which
> -resides in grep/.git) currently weighs in at about 9MB.  So you don't
> +resides in grep/.git) currently weighs in at about 5MB.  So you don't
>  want to download it more often than necessary.  Once downloaded, you
>  can get incremental updates by running one of these commands from
>  inside your new grep/ directory:
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> grep (GNU grep) 2.25.30-220c
> Repository revision: 220cbd1c8459b9e0d284d62aa65023c663bb71f8
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#23990: Doc. fix: Update repository weight Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:05:00 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 Thanks for catching that. Rather than try to maintain that number it's probably better just to remove it, plus spruce up some of the other old cruft I found in the neighborhood. I installed the attached.

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