From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:44:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612021242080.3476@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061202201826.GR18810@admingilde.org>



On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Martin Waitz wrote:
> 
> I don't buy your scalability argument.

Try it.

Really. Get the mozilla import (450MB project), and clone it on a machine 
with half a gig of RAM or less.

Then, clone a couple of smaller archives that end up being 450MB 
_combined_, but clone them separately.

And watch the memory usage.

> By separating the repositories you just make reachability analyis be
> totally awkward, without winning anything.

Trust me. Try it out.