On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 12:22 AM, David Turner <dtur...@twopensource.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 14:44 +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> > So yeah, this is the challenge: to make Git work at real-world >> > scale >> > (didn't we hear a lot about this at the latest Git Merge?) >> >> I'm all for making Junio cry by using Git for what it is (or was) not >> intended for, but this seems too much. A repo about 500k files or >> less, I think I can deal with, not those in million range. > > Sad news: Facebook's repo was already getting towards that size three > years ago: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189776
I've been doing this for too long I forgot about numbers in that mail. The good news is I also forgot that I tried an artificial index of 200 MB nearly two years ago [1]. 100ms read time from that test is not bad. But Johannes' point stands, it will hurt if index-helper is bypassed at this size. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/248771 -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
