Re: git and larger trees, not so fast?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 11, 2007, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708111337280.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070811190201.GB4710@ferdyx.org>

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:

> 
> Just for the record, I tried those patches on a real tree of ~120k files
> and ~25k directories, and Git is now _usable_. (The repository was
> created from an old checkout of the gentoo-x86 tree).

What does "usable" mean? Is it still slow ("barely usable") or is it actually fast enough to be truly _nice_ to use?

		Linus

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