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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,  Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fast-import: contextualize the hardware cost
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:44:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo6szm799.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9bc7547a27aab8bc2404caeb821b7f5c4c10d14.1754055658.git.code@khaugsbakk.name> (kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com's message of "Fri, 1 Aug 2025 15:42:25 +0200")

kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com writes:

> 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).

That is a definite improvement.  Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-08-01 14:44 UTC|newest]

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2025-08-01 13:42 [PATCH] doc: fast-import: contextualize the hardware cost kristofferhaugsbakk
2025-08-01 14:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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