From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Shawn Pearce' <spearce@spearce.org>, 'git' <git@vger.kernel.org>,
benpeart@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:05:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2381666.1DSVtKRIH5@mfick1-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002501d2710b$af74c4d0$0e5e4e70$@gmail.com>
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 04:50:13 PM Ben Peart wrote:
> While large files can be a real problem, our biggest issue
> today is having a lot (millions!) of source files when
> any individual developer only needs a small percentage of
> them. Git with 3+ million local files just doesn't
> perform well.
Honestly, this sounds like a problem better dealt with by
using git subtree or git submodules, have you considered
that?
-Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-13 15:52 [RFC] Add support for downloading blobs on demand Ben Peart
2017-01-13 21:07 ` Shawn Pearce
2017-01-17 21:50 ` Ben Peart
2017-01-17 22:05 ` Martin Fick [this message]
2017-01-17 22:23 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-18 18:27 ` Ben Peart
2017-01-17 18:42 ` Jeff King
2017-01-17 21:50 ` Ben Peart
2017-02-05 14:03 ` Christian Couder
2017-02-07 18:21 ` Ben Peart
2017-02-07 21:56 ` Jakub Narębski
2017-02-08 2:18 ` Ben Peart
2017-02-23 15:39 ` Ben Peart
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