From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] gitperformance: add new documentation about git performance tuning
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 22:39:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170403223956.GA3537@whir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX7R5svNJ+Ak3LFh8+kY48i6V7Yo6JDS+PSDJCkZ5vHb6w@mail.gmail.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> - Should we be covering good practices for your repo going forward to
> >> maintain good performance? E.g. don't have some huge tree all in
> >> one directory (use subdirs), don't add binary (rather
> >> un-delta-able) content if you can help it etc.
> >
> > Yes, I think so.
>
> I'll try to write something up.
>
> > I think avoiding ever growing ChangeLog-type files should also
> > be added to things to avoid.
>
> How were those bad specifically? They should delta quite well, it's
> expensive to commit large files but no more because they're
> ever-growing.
It might be blame/annotate specifically, I was remembering this
thread from a decade ago:
https://public-inbox.org/git/4aca3dc20712110933i636342fbifb15171d3e3cafb3@mail.gmail.com/T/
> One issue with e.g. storing logs (I keep my IRC logs in git) is that
> if you're constantly committing large (text) files without repack your
> .git grows by a *lot* in a very short amount of time until a very
> expensive repack, so now I split my IRC logs by month.
Yep, that too; as auto GC is triggered by the number of loose
objects, not the size/packability of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-03 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-03 21:16 [PATCH/RFC] gitperformance: add new documentation about git performance tuning Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-03 21:34 ` Eric Wong
2017-04-03 21:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-03 22:39 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2017-04-04 21:12 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-04 2:19 ` Jeff King
2017-04-04 15:07 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-04-04 15:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-04-04 18:25 ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-04-05 12:56 ` Duy Nguyen
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