From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:05:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand
Message-ID: <2381666.1DSVtKRIH5@mfick1-lnx>
In-Reply-To: <002501d2710b$af74c4d0$0e5e4e70$@gmail.com>

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote:
> While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue
> today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when
> any individual developer only needs a small percentage of
> them.  Git with 3+ million local files just doesn't
> perform well.

Honestly, this sounds like a problem better dealt with by 
using git subtree or git submodules, have you considered 
that?

-Martin

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