On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Something like this? http://www.gadgetopia.com/images/big_machine.jpg -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- 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
