Repository download size

[Stevepurpose]

Goodday MDN ,While going through your docs, I found a particular page I'd like to edit. Clicking on it takes me to a content repository on GitHub. My question is this : when I fork the repository does it download the entire MDN Docs or just the page I want to work on?.
I am asking because I'd like to be aware of the internet data bundle consumption in megabytes or gigabytes,so that I don't get caught unawares . I have just 1.5GB currently,would that be enough to complete the fork?.

[bsmth]

Thanks for asking. The mdn/content repo is about 300MB (a little more on disk uncompressed) so you can expect around that much data to be transferred/used when cloning your fork:

git clone --verbose  https://github.com/mdn/content.git
# Receiving objects: 100% (654355/654355), 299.58 MiB | 6.10 MiB/s, done.

It is probably safe to do a shallow clone for your fork - this comes out to around 60MB:

git clone --depth=1 --verbose  https://github.com/{your_username}/content.git
# ...
# Receiving objects: 100% (25510/25510), 57.98 MiB | 6.07 MiB/s, done.

Alternatively, you can use the GitHub editor to edit a page without having to download anything over your network. See GitHub docs for this.

I hope that helps!

[Stevepurpose]

Thanks a lot for the info. Will check out the options.

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2023, 17:50 Brian Thomas Smith, ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks for asking. The mdn/content repo is about 300MB (a little more on disk uncompressed) so you can expect around that much data to be transferred/used when cloning your fork: git clone --verbose https://github.com/mdn/content.git# Receiving objects: 100% (654355/654355), 299.58 MiB | 6.10 MiB/s, done. It is probably safe to do a shallow clone for your fork <https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-clone-and-shallow-clone> - this comes out to around 60MB: git clone --depth=1 --verbose https://github.com/{your_username}/content.git# ...# Receiving objects: 100% (25510/25510), 57.98 MiB | 6.07 MiB/s, done. Alternatively, you can use the GitHub editor to edit a page without having to download anything over your network. See GitHub docs for this <https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-files/editing-files#editing-files-in-another-users-repository> . I hope that helps! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#445 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AZDIFAM5LBX2G3Y63NVA7QDXZCSUBANCNFSM6AAAAAA4NTUUL4> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>