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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas"
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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> Once you are packed it's sweet, but large repos are a pain to deal
> with. You won't impress anyone with performance over a linux kernel
> repo -- starting up gitk can take a long time.

I'd suggest running qgit instead, and make sure you've run it once on 
the repo you're demoing. qgit has a nice little cache where it tucks 
away most of the data it uses, which makes it draw things a lot faster.

-- 
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