From: Bill Lear Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:11:22 GMT Subject: 16 gig, 350,000 file repository Message-ID: <19325.40682.729141.973125@blake.zopyra.com> In-Reply-To: I'm starting a new, large project and would like a quick bit of advice. Bringing in a set of test cases and other files from a ClearCase repository resulted in a 350,000 file git repo of about 16 gigabytes. The time to clone over a fast network was about 250 minutes. I could not verify if the repo had been packed properly, etc. However, we are thinking of using submodules or subtrees, to allow a person to selectively clone only a part of the repo they need for their work. Is there a way to do this without submodules/subtrees? We also need to be able to branch the entire repo, which I think would make submodules kind of a pain, but don't know... What is the current thinking on these issues in the git community? Bill