Re: Git performance results on a large repository

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All these involve unpack_trees(), which is full tree operation. The
>> bigger your worktree is, the slower it is. Another good reason to
>> split unrelated parts into separate repositories.
>
> Maybe having different "views" would be enough to make a smaller
> worktree and history, so that things are much faster for a developper?
>
> (I already suggested "views" based on "git replace" in this thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/177146/focus=177639)

That's more or less what I did with the subtree clone series [1] and
ended up doing narrow clone [2]. The only difference between the two
are how to handle partial worktree/index. The former uses git-replace
to seal any holes, the latter tackles at pathspec level and is
generally more elegant.

The worktree part from that work should be usable in full clone too. I
am reviving the series and going to repost it soon. Have a look [3] if
you are interested.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152347
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/155427
[3] https://github.com/pclouds/git/commits/narrow-clone
-- 
Duy