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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #03; Sun, 15)

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JPJames Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
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Nov 16, 2009, 00:13 UTC
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Peter Weseloh <Peter.Weseloh@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm currently trying to convince my managment to switch from CVS to git.
> What causes some trouble is that we have quite some files (> 40k) in various
> (>300) CVS modules and splitting them into sub-repos seams somewhat difficult.
> git has no problem even with that many files but commands that stat the
> working copy (e.g. 'git status') take quite long on our filers
> (it's either a problem with the filers or with nfs or both, I don't know yet).
> Having the ability to do sparse checkouts only of the repo sounds like a
> way out.

Make sure you have set core.preloadindex to true. It makes life on NFS much more tolerable.

James
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  1. Junio C HamanoNov 15, 2009
  2. Daniel BarkalowNov 15, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierNov 15, 2009
  4. Daniel BarkalowNov 16, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009
  6. Peter WeselohNov 15, 2009
  7. James PickensNov 16, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2009

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