Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*

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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 23:50, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [+shawn, who runs into something similar with Gerrit]

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 05:44, NAKAMURA Takumi <geek4civic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello, Git. It is my 1st post here.
>>
>> I have tried tagging each commit as "refs/tags/rXXXXXX" on git-svn
>> repo locally. (over 100k refs/tags.)

As Jakub pointed out, use git notes for this. They were designed to
scale to >100,000 annotations.

>> Indeed, it made something extremely slower, even with packed-refs and
>> pack objects.

Having a reference to every commit in the repository is horrifically
slow. We run into this with Gerrit Code Review and I need to find
another solution. Git just wasn't meant to process repositories like
this.

-- 
Shawn.
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