Why is the size of the forked repository so huge in GitHub?
I am a newbie to github and I am required to have an understanding of wireshark by analyzing its source code. The source code is apparently around 23 MB but if I try to do a git clone from the link provided in the website, it turns out to be around 636 MB .
Can someone please shed some light as to why the clone is so big compared to the source code?
When you clone a repository with git ... that's what you're doing; cloning a repository. You're getting all the branches and their histories, not just master .
If you really wanted to, you could just get master (or a specific branch) - see: Clone only one branch
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