The largest Git repo

Re:The largest Git repo by wilatmsft on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:47PM (#14411935)

The pack file size for a full clone is 187GB. The 300GB is the working directory. We did not import the history of the code base, so the current repo only has about 5 months of history. As others have called out, there are a lot of assets in the repo that don't compress.

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Re:The largest Git repo by bokchoi on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#14412283)

Why only 5 months? Will more of the history be added to the git repository eventually?

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Re:The largest Git repo by vtbassmatt on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:39PM (#14412365)

No, we'll keep the SD servers around for a while for servicing older products. We also have a "breadcrumbing" system that lets an engineer follow a file's history back from Git to the old system.

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Re:The largest Git repo by ysleepy on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:29PM (#14413191)

Was importing the complete history tried during the development? This is very interesting. The git history will grow at break-neck speed and will reach similar size soon enough. Is this to delay the inevitable tech wrangling for dealing with terabyte histories or were there issues with the import/sync?

Or maybe it was just the initial repo setup used for alpha testing that got promoted to production :)

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