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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Bill Lear wrote:

> I'm starting a new, large project and would like a quick bit of advice.
> 
> Bringing in a set of test cases and other files from a ClearCase
> repository resulted in a 350,000 file git repo of about 16 gigabytes.
> 
> The time to clone over a fast network was about 250 minutes.  I could
> not verify if the repo had been packed properly, etc.

I'd start from there.  If you didn't do a 'git gc --aggressive' after 
the import then it is quite likely that your repo isn't well packed.

Of course you'll need a big machine to repack this.  But that should be 
needed only once.


Nicolas