From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:27:03 GMT Subject: Re: 16 gig, 350,000 file repository Message-ID: <40aa078e1002190127m4c9d5565obb792c77e29baf28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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 -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund