Hi, On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > 'Checkout time' (which should be renamed to 'Initial checkout time'), > > > in which git also loses with 130 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL) [from > > > go-oo.org], 100min (Linux, 2MBit DSL, Wireless, no proxy) [from > > > go-oo.org] versus 117 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL), 26 minutes (Linux, > > > 2MBit DSL, with compression (-z 6)) for CVS, and 60 Minutes (Windows, > > > 34Mbit Line) for Subversion, would also be helped by the above. > > > > FWIW I can confirm the number "100min". > > > > Something I realized with pain is that the refs/ directory is 24MB big. > > Yep. Really. They have 3464 heads and 2639 tags. I suspect that this is > > the reason why. > > I should probably produce even a tree where would be the merged branches > deleted, right... FWIW, I just deleted all branches except for one, packed the tags, and did a local clone (via NFS, urgh) _without_ checking the files out. Now it takes 25 minutes vs 50 minutes before (in an _extremely_ unscientific test, mind you). So, this issue is worth looking at, probably. Ciao, Dscho - 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