Re: 16 gig, 350,000 file repository

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2010, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <40aa078e1002190127m4c9d5565obb792c77e29baf28@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002181556320.1946@xanadu.home>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'd start from there.  If you didn't do a 'git gc --aggressive' after
> the import then it is quite likely that your repo isn't well packed.
>
> Of course you'll need a big machine to repack this.

Something like this? http://www.gadgetopia.com/images/big_machine.jpg

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund