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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by masklinn on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:15AM (#44208897)
And in fairness I can understand not considering someone might eventually be bundling a repository with tens of thousands of refs back in early 2009.
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Re:Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 m... by nayak on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:32AM (#44222458)
Even now, the contrast between repository sizes is wide. Most repos contain 1000s of references, which while not the best to run O(N^2) algorithm, is still okay. But as a Git forge, you also see a share of repositories which contain millions of references.
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