Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas"

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 3, 2007, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <459BB5C8.4000608@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90612181502y3e2a41cds7f16113ad0270f31@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 
> Once you are packed it's sweet, but large repos are a pain to deal
> with. You won't impress anyone with performance over a linux kernel
> repo -- starting up gitk can take a long time.

I'd suggest running qgit instead, and make sure you've run it once on the repo you're demoing. qgit has a nice little cache where it tucks away most of the data it uses, which makes it draw things a lot faster.

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