Re:Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
by InclinedPlane on Friday February 03, 2012 @04:20PM
(#3549059)
A lot of big companies have repos 10 or 100 times that size. With tens of millions of files, sometimes up to 100 gigs or more of data under source control.
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Re:Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
by brown9-2 on Friday February 03, 2012 @05:22PM
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True, but don't most places organize one git repo per project, rather than one for the entirety of the company's source code?
Re:Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
by luser001 on Friday February 03, 2012 @05:49PM
(#3549444)
Most people like that use Perforce (e.g., Google).
And no, they don't split into multiple repos, they might well have the entire company's source code in a single repository (code sharing is way easier this way).
Re:Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository
by zoips on Saturday February 04, 2012 @05:28PM
(#3552410)
That's a pretty terrible way to share code. Simple example: I work on a project, write some code. Turns out that code is useful for someone else, so they reach in and include it, which is easy since it's all the same repo and all delivered to the build system. Now I make a change and break some customer I didn't even know exists. Oops.
This is what package systems are for.