On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 23:28, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Guys, back off a little on telling the gentoo people to change. > > I agree here, we should either say "look, we don't really support big > repositories because [explanation here], unless you [workarounds > here]" OR we should work to improve the support we do have. Of course, > the latter option does not magically create developer time to work on > that, but if we do go that way we should at least tell people that we > are aware of the problems and that it's on the global TODO list (not > necessarily on anyone's personal TODO list though). For the record... I at least am aware of the problem and it is indeed on my personal git todo list. Not that I have a clear solution yet (I've been pondering on some git packing issues for almost 4 years now). Still, in this particular case, the problem appears to be unclear to me, like "this shouldn't be so bad". > Of course, the problem can sometimes be solved by splitting the > repository, but I think it is important to have an official policy > here, do we want Git to support huge repositories, or do we not? I do. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html