clean up .repo after sources are download

[Chandara MK]

Hi All,

how to clean up repo after the sources are downloaded.
currently, my space has only 50GB to build android source.

while it has been building the sources, my pc is running out of space.

I've seen that .repo has the size up to 26GB. is it possible to clean it?

Thank
Mick

[Glenn Kasten]

Do an ls -l on <project>/.git and you'll see that there are important up-links to .repo.

[Chandara MK]

Can you show me the actual one?
i'm too new to repo git...

Thank
Mick

[Magnus Bäck]

On Monday, September 22, 2014 at 10:44 CEST,

Sure, but you'll lose the ability to use Git in your source tree,
including running 'repo sync' to get more recent code. I don't
think there's anything in the build itself that depends on running
Git, but there could be.

Short term that might be okay for you but long term you simply need
more disk. Given what it takes in terms of CPU and RAM to build AOSP,
a few extra tens of gigabytes of disk shouldn't be impossible.

You can also save some space (not sure how much) by using the --shallow
option of 'repo init' and/or the -c option of 'repo sync'. Using them at
this point won't do much good though; you'd have to wipe everything and
start from the beginning.

--
Magnus Bäck | Software Engineer, Development Tools
magnu...@sonymobile.com | Sony Mobile Communications

[Chandara MK]

Thank you Magnus for the recommendation.
With your point, I do agree.

Currently, I cannot add more extra space to my Ubuntu.
I need to build and test it for testing rom.

I have figured out to delete the project in .repo.

Actually, the .repo is a hidden folder. I just show hidden folder and delete it...:)

Thank,
Mick