3 Aug
2017
3 Aug
'17
4:33 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:16:13 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
So I was checking out the repo the other day and it took ages. So it got me thinking what might be the problem. Looks like a part of it is that our pack is split among ~250 files. Therefore when somebody does
250 files should not be an issue on today's computers. Maybe 2 orders of magnitude more would pose some issues.
checkout git needs to repack it into a single pack every time. And this may take ages on such slow processor as Atom is. However, reading some docs on this it looks like 'git gc --aggressive' is not advised rather than 'git repack'.
Any thoughts?
Clone from github or some other hosting with more network conectivity/CPU power if you are bothered by this?