From: Samuel Abels <newsgroups@debain.org>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Performance impact of a large number of commits
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:18:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224911915.7566.35.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810241301430.27333@asgard.lang.hm>
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:11 -0700, david@lang.hm 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 19:02 Performance impact of a large number of commits Samuel Abels
2008-10-24 19:43 ` david
2008-10-24 19:56 ` Samuel Abels
2008-10-24 20:11 ` david
2008-10-25 5:18 ` Samuel Abels [this message]
2008-10-25 5:29 ` david
2008-10-25 15:12 ` Samuel Abels
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