From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] Submodules in GIT Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:44:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20061130170625.GH18810@admingilde.org> <4570AF8F.1000801@stephan-feder.de> <200612020036.08826.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> <20061202201826.GR18810@admingilde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 20:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Josef Weidendorfer , sf , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <20061202201826.GR18810@admingilde.org> X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.161 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gqbiy-0001WR-IH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:44:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031785AbWLBUoh (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 15:44:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031786AbWLBUoh (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 15:44:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:39344 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031785AbWLBUoh (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 15:44:37 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id kB2KiLjQ023043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:44:22 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id kB2KiKVO028416; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:44:21 -0800 To: Martin Waitz Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Martin Waitz wrote: > > I don't buy your scalability argument. Try it. Really. Get the mozilla import (450MB project), and clone it on a machine with half a gig of RAM or less. Then, clone a couple of smaller archives that end up being 450MB _combined_, but clone them separately. And watch the memory usage. > By separating the repositories you just make reachability analyis be > totally awkward, without winning anything. Trust me. Try it out.