Re: worlds slowest git repo- what to do?

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley-7KbaBNvhQFM@public.gmane.org>]

From: "John Fisher" <fishook2033-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>I assert based on one piece of evidence ( a post from a facebook dev) 
>that I now have the worlds biggest and slowest git
> repository, and I am not a happy guy. I used to have the worlds 
> biggest CVS repository, but CVS can't handle multi-G
> sized files. So I moved the repo to git, because we are using that for 
> our new projects.
>
> goal:
> keep 150 G of files (mostly binary) from tiny sized to over 8G in a 
> version-control system.
>
> problem:
> git is absurdly slow, think hours, on fast hardware.
>
> question:
> any suggestions beyond these-
> http://git-annex.branchable.com/
> https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat
> https://github.com/schacon/git-media
> http://code.google.com/p/boar/
> subversion
>
> ?

At the moment some of the developers are looking to speed up some of the 
code on very large repos, though I think they are looking at code repos, 
rather than large file repos. They were looking for large repos to test 
some of the code upon ;-)

I've copied the Git list should they want to make any suggestions.

>
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
Philip 

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