From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:29:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling very large numbers of symbolic references?
Message-ID: <44C68D52.6030107@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <87psfteb4l.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>

Nix schrieb:
> However, this causes a potential problem. There are tens of thousands of
> these bugs, and the .git/refs/heads directory gets *enormous* and thus
> the system gets terribly terribly slow (crappy old Solaris filesystem
> syndrome).
> 
> It seems to me there are two ways to fix this:
> 
>  - restructure .git/refs/* in a similar way to .git/objects, i.e. as a
>    one- or two-level tree.

Branch names are allowed to contain slashes, thus your porcelain is free
to implement such a tree.  Add a slash after every two bug ID digits and
your directories will never contain more than 100 objects.

René