From: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fast-import: contextualize the hardware cost
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 15:42:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9bc7547a27aab8bc2404caeb821b7f5c4c10d14.1754055658.git.code@khaugsbakk.name> (raw)
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
6e411d20440 (Initial draft of fast-import documentation., 2007-02-05)
pointed out how much time a fast-import took on some hardware with a
specific cost. Let’s further point out that this experiment was done
in 2007. So modern hardware should have no issues with such a repo.
Also move the parenthetical to the end now that it contains four words.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
---
Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
index d2327842003..6f9763c11b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.adoc
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ amount of memory usage and processing time. Assuming the frontend
is able to keep up with fast-import and feed it a constant stream of data,
import times for projects holding 10+ years of history and containing
100,000+ individual commits are generally completed in just 1-2
-hours on quite modest (~$2,000 USD) hardware.
+hours on quite modest hardware (~$2,000 USD in 2007).
Most bottlenecks appear to be in foreign source data access (the
source just cannot extract revisions fast enough) or disk IO (fast-import
base-commit: e813a0200a7121b97fec535f0d0b460b0a33356c
--
2.50.1
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