On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:11 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > > git commit explicitly (i.e., walking the tree to stat files for finding > > changes is not necessary). > > I suspect that your limits would be filesystem/OS limits more than git > limits > > at 5-10 files/commit you are going to be creating .5-1m files/day, even > spread across 256 directories this is going to be a _lot_ of files. The files are organized in a way that places no more than ~1.000 files into each directory. Will Git create a directory containing a larger number of object files? I can see that this would be a problem in our use case. > packing this may help (depending on how much the files change), but with > this many files the work of doing the packing would be expensive. We can probably do that even if it takes several hours. -Samuel -- 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
