From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: 16 gig, 350,000 file repository Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:27:03 +0100 Message-ID: <40aa078e1002190127m4c9d5565obb792c77e29baf28@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100211234753.22574.48799.reportbug@gibbs.hungrycats.org> <20100214011812.GA2175@dpotapov.dyndns.org> <7vljer1gyg.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <201002181114.19984.trast@student.ethz.ch> <7vtytee7ff.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <19325.40682.729141.973125@blake.zopyra.com> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Bill Lear , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 19 10:27:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiP8q-0005sk-6h for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:27:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752367Ab0BSJ1M convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:27:12 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]:48327 "EHLO mail-ew0-f216.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752172Ab0BSJ1G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:27:06 -0500 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so10480839ewy.29 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:27:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ELLNi0tWZR4RDxAfcuSX1sS4pcCnnmMIuRqxXy/QEgk=; b=s+fxJBMOtO/IFUlbDu8nzL7swcBCHeJI+XLPlWxpiFo4DtiLf6yLw/Fn3IBW4jHNxG lGRio99KavkpW2kKP3Cv4p68/agS4gGgu+WT5NaWhe/9MzCGbfzYLBaoByHvAbywQlqY mB0dr1KYutqbXyXEp4aYH91IoDnHcINiQjjtM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lJ0iE8g/GUdDtWbBREY1x14jl4YwZjkmehjc4/IyGf+gl46+j4YffFGZPxCe+e4s9C ilzUw8px9ni9nue0R23/krdZZfYhf+klJhJ28Bvx5AixGOU6i/EkGMmo/EaB3TjkGv3L zQoo0ENCLaGXfUnCl22kO9Gc7KFlRiRZlWqi8= Received: by 10.216.88.207 with SMTP id a57mr949766wef.200.1266571623171; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:27:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote= : > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Bill Lear wrote: > >> I'm starting a new, large project and would like a quick bit of advi= ce. >> >> Bringing in a set of test cases and other files from a ClearCase >> repository resulted in a 350,000 file git repo of about 16 gigabytes= =2E >> >> The time to clone over a fast network was about 250 minutes. =A0I co= uld >> not verify if the repo had been packed properly, etc. > > I'd start from there. =A0If you didn't do a 'git gc --aggressive' aft= er > the import then it is quite likely that your repo isn't well packed. > > Of course you'll need a big machine to repack this. Something like this? http://www.gadgetopia.com/images/big_machine.jpg --=20 Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund