From: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:04:00 GMT
Subject: Re: svn to git, N-squared?
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0606121204q1f9dfb5dv3c09c4e9e6a16a0f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606112056440.5498@g5.osdl.org>

On 6/12/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I have it stopped and I am running the repack.
> > There are 1.27M files in my .git directory
> Yeah, that would do it. That's ~5000 files per object directory, so I
> assume that your directories are 200+kB in size, and for every new object
> added, you'll basically have to traverse the old directory fully in order
> to find an empty place for it

Is this related to 1-level dir tree for objects (12/object)
vs 2-level dir tree (12/34/object) ? Does git employ more levels
for object tree for large projects ?

Yakov