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From: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: Handling very large numbers of symbolic references?
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:29:54 +0200
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Nix schrieb:
> However, this causes a potential problem. There are tens of thousands=
 of
> these bugs, and the .git/refs/heads directory gets *enormous* and thu=
s
> the system gets terribly terribly slow (crappy old Solaris filesystem
> syndrome).
>=20
> It seems to me there are two ways to fix this:
>=20
>  - restructure .git/refs/* in a similar way to .git/objects, i.e. as =
a
>    one- or two-level tree.

Branch names are allowed to contain slashes, thus your porcelain is fre=
e
to implement such a tree.  Add a slash after every two bug ID digits an=
d
your directories will never contain more than 100 objects.

Ren=E9