Re: Big project, slow access!

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2009, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0909181612040.24133@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <a4c8a6d00909181205x6b8c348ct270fba6d27df5604@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Thiago Farina wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Toan Pham <tpham3783@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use git to maintain a project that is at least 8 gigs in size.
> > The project is a Linux from Scratch repository that includes source
> > codes to approximately 2000 open source projects,
> > gcc tool-chain, 1000+ configurations for different software packages,
> > source code for different kernel versions,
> > and many linux distributions/flavors resulted from this LFS build environment.
> >
> > The git's object repository is now 4.6 gigs and consists of approx.
> > 610,000 files and folders.
> > The speed of git is now terribly slow.  Each time I use basic commands
> > like 'git status' or 'git diff',
> > it would take at least 5 minutes for git to give me back a result.
> > Again, the machine that i run git on is a P4 3.2 gig-hertz with HT.
> >
> > would  someone please recommend on how i can optimize git's performance?
> > Git is so slow, are there better ways to manage a project like this?
> Git is so slow? What you expect with 4.6 gigs? It take some time to do
> the things. And it is not slow. It is very fast, and it was created
> with this goal, to be more fast than others VCS.

I wrote some piece of the code in Git and I do know how it is possible for git to become very slow. Denying it is not the way to go.

Nicolas