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pavanky on May 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Atom Is Now Open Source

The cloned repo is ~238mb. I can't help but think some of it is not necessary.

hamburglar on May 6, 2014 | [–]

A cloned Chromium repo is 11GB, last I checked. Not a particularly relevant metric.

jadeddrag on May 6, 2014 | [–]

It's not necessary. The code is under 6MB. Remove the top level .git directory if the size bothers you.

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