From: Shawn Pearce Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:23:44 GMT Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/* Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 23:50, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > [+shawn, who runs into something similar with Gerrit] > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 05:44, NAKAMURA Takumi wrote: >> Hello, Git. It is my 1st post here. >> >> I have tried tagging each commit as "refs/tags/rXXXXXX" on git-svn >> repo locally. (over 100k refs/tags.) As Jakub pointed out, use git notes for this. They were designed to scale to >100,000 annotations. >> Indeed, it made something extremely slower, even with packed-refs and >> pack objects. Having a reference to every commit in the repository is horrifically slow. We run into this with Gerrit Code Review and I need to find another solution. Git just wasn't meant to process repositories like this. -- Shawn.