From: Thomas Rast <trast@student•ethz.ch>
To: Ken Brownfield <krb@irridia•com>
Cc: <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Performance issue exposed by git-filter-branch
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:54:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012170254.13005.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C1B4AC-8427-4D62-BEB6-689A4BE4EE5B@irridia.com>
Ken Brownfield wrote:
> git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch -- bigdirtree stuff/a stuff/b stuff/c stuff/dir/{a,b,c}' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
[...]
> Now that the same repository has grown, this same filter-branch
> process now takes 6.5 *days* at 100% CPU on the same machine (2x4
> Xeon, x86_64) on git-1.7.3.2. There's no I/O, memory, or other
> resource contention.
If all you do is an index-filter for deletion, I think it should be
rather easy to achieve good results by filtering the fast-export
stream to remove these files, and then piping that back to
fast-import.
(It's just that AFAIK nobody has written that code yet.)
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-17 1:07 Performance issue exposed by git-filter-branch Ken Brownfield
2010-12-17 1:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-17 2:31 ` Ken Brownfield
2010-12-17 3:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-17 3:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-17 1:54 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-12-17 2:36 ` Ken Brownfield
2010-12-17 2:51 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-21 4:49 ` Ken Brownfield
2010-12-17 3:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-17 5:39 ` Elijah Newren
2011-02-04 21:17 ` Ken Brownfield
2011-02-05 14:21 ` Elijah Newren
2010-12-17 13:01 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-21 4:59 ` Ken Brownfield
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