On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Bill Lear wrote: > I'm starting a new, large project and would like a quick bit of advice. > > 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. > > The time to clone over a fast network was about 250 minutes. I could > not verify if the repo had been packed properly, etc. I'd start from there. If you didn't do a 'git gc --aggressive' after 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. But that should be needed only once. 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