From: Uri Moszkowicz Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:23:33 GMT Subject: tag storage format Message-ID: I'm doing some testing on a large Git repository and am finding local clones to take a very long time. After some investigation I've determined that the problem is due to a very large number of tags (~38k). Even with hard links, it just takes a really long time to visit that many inodes. As it happens, I don't care for most of these tags and will prune many of them anyway but I expect that over time it will creep back up again. Have others reported this problem before and is there a workaround? Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file block text or binary format once a large number of tags becomes present in a repository.