Re: git and larger trees, not so fast?

From: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org>
Date: Aug 11, 2007, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20070811205137.GC4710@ferdyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708111337280.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:38:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
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> > Just for the record, I tried those patches on a real tree of ~120k files
> > and ~25k directories, and Git is now _usable_. (The repository was
> > created from an old checkout of the gentoo-x86 tree).
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> What does "usable" mean? Is it still slow ("barely usable") or is it 
> actually fast enough to be truly _nice_ to use?

Very nice to use considering my hardware is rather old. git status used to take >1m and it now takes ~3s and git commit takes ~7s while it used to take >1m too. So it makes things nice to use and I guess things are MUCH better on faster hardware.

(This is running on a 'AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+' and the repo is in a USB Hard drive)

- ferdy

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