From: Chris Lee <chris133@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:35:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Git performance results on a large repository
Message-ID: <CA+B68xBG8c3eMg5ULUYgmZ4vTiSgvu2nEFfgTD1m0-dLhLKZhg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CB5074CF.3AD7A%joshua.redstone@fb.com>

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Joshua Redstone <joshua.redstone@fb.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> The git performance we observed here is too slow for our needs.  So the
> question becomes, if we want to keep using git going forward, what's the
> best way to improve performance.  It seems clear we'll probably need some
> specialized servers (e.g., to perform git-blame quickly) and maybe
> specialized file system integration to detect what files have changed in a
> working tree.

Have you considered upgrading all of engineering to SSDs? 200+GB SSDs
are under $400USD nowadays.

-clee