On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Peter Weseloh <Peter.Weseloh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm currently trying to convince my managment to switch from CVS to git. > What causes some trouble is that we have quite some files (> 40k) in various > (>300) CVS modules and splitting them into sub-repos seams somewhat difficult. > git has no problem even with that many files but commands that stat the > working copy (e.g. 'git status') take quite long on our filers > (it's either a problem with the filers or with nfs or both, I don't know yet). > Having the ability to do sparse checkouts only of the repo sounds like a > way out. Make sure you have set core.preloadindex to true. It makes life on NFS much more tolerable. James -- 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