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> Combine that with the fact that Git falls over at ~5GB. I've never heard that (and certainly don't personally deal w/ git repos that large). I thought massiv
by bch 11y ago
> Combine that with the fact that Git falls over at ~5GB.
I've never heard that (and certainly don't personally deal w/ git repos that large). I thought massive repository handling was supposed to be a strength of git. How does git (start) failing at that scale ?
- knicholes 11y agogit LFS comes to mind. https://git-lfs.github.com/ https://git-lfs.github.com/
- vernie 11y agoIf you commit a large binary file and iterate on it a bunch you'll notice that your repo size explodes. That's why there have been multiple efforts (e.g. git-annex, Git Large File Storage) to improve performance with large binary files (by essentially taking the files out of the repo).
- chubot 11y agoBig companies have issues with Git... here is an old thread that talks about what happened with Facebook and Git: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189776 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18977... So they are patching Mercurial, apparently with some Google collaboration (!) https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...