Re: The essential problems of moving from CVS

[Curt Sampson <cjs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 2010-01-16 21:03 +0000 (Sat), David Holland wrote:

> The working copy, not the history. Scanning a whole tree takes a
> while. This is just filesystem I/O and not something git can do much
> about.

Just as a data point, on a fast machine (Core 8i) with a bog-standard
7200 RPM SATA disk, the initial scan is over a minute for me. (Warm
cache scan is under a second.)

I'm not clear if CVS is significantly faster than this or not. I'm
guessing not.

That said, I do think that git-subtree[1] deals with this appropriately.

[1]: http://github.com/bronson/git-subtree

cjs
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