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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by sroussey on Sunday December 10, 2023 @02:24PM (#38594107)
git still has issues with lots of files. I downloaded the sec Edgar database as files and I thought it would be nice way to store and watch changes.

Nope.

So slow. It does not like millions of files. And all my tooling that does a “quick” git status locked up the terminal, vs code, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control? by onedognight on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:01PM (#38594484)
Did you try the file system daemon (git fsmonitor--daemon start) that’s built into git that was designed to speed up git status on many files?
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