Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve Git performance on big trees

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

On 1/14/10, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/14 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>
> > Almost 1 sec for "git rm foo" still seems too long though,
>  > probably due to writing a 9MB index.
>
>
> One of the main issues there is that the Gentoo dir tree seems to be
>  very flat. The kernel tree is huge, but much deeper, and does not have
>  a huge top-level directory -- and git handles it fairly well.

Kernel tree is about one third the size of gentoo-x86 in terms of
worktree. It takes ~1 sec to do "git status" on kernel tree and 3 secs
on gentoo-x86, quite proportional. Except that 3 secs feel much longer
than 1 :-)

Directory structure may also affect performance though. Kernel tree
only has ~2k directories while gentoo-x86 has ~20k shallow dirs.

>  Perhaps the Gentoo tree can be rearranged to be more nested? If your
>  devs strongly prefer a flat view of it, that could be arranged with
>  symlinks.
>
>  Alternatively, each port can be in its own repo, and you can make a
>  "top level repo" using git submodules -- this is what Fedora/RH is
>  exploring at the moment.

There were discussions of these in the past. And to my experience,
these ideas won't go anywhere. The number of worktree files may drop
significantly after Git migration because I believe all ChangeLog
(~13k files on total ~80k) will be gone.
-- 
Duy