From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:13:14 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2009, #03; Sun, 15)
Message-ID: <885649360911151613m7752ad09v3c0f48c44d569dfb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20091116T003914-635@post.gmane.org>

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Peter Weseloh <Peter.Weseloh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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