Thanks to everyone. The information was useful. On 24 February 2013 21:31, Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Thomas Koch <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Yuri Mikhailov: >>> Dear Git community, >>> >>> I am a Software Developer and I have been using git for a while. >>> Currently my company is looking for a version control system to use >>> and we find Git a good candidate for us. But what is important for us >>> to know is scalability of this VCS. Does anyone performed load testing >>> of Git? What is the practical maximum number of files and revisions >>> this system can handle? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Iurii Mykhailov >> >> Have a look at the projects using Git[1]. There are for sure projects that >> exceeds the scalability you're thinking about. The linux Kernel might be the >> biggest project. > > I highly doubt the Linux kernel is the biggest project. > > IIRC WebKit has more objects, more files, etc. Its repository's > compressed form is >4G. > > I know of at least some proprietary repositories with 96G in them. Not > much history, but a lot of binary blobs around 128M each doesn't > compress well. And bup wasn't used so we didn't get very good > compression over the files. -- 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