Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:18:09 -0700 (PDT)

NAKAMURA Takumi <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello, Git. It is my 1st post here.
> 
> I have tried tagging each commit as "refs/tags/rXXXXXX" on git-svn
> repo locally. (over 100k refs/tags.)
[...]

That's insane.  You would do much better to mark each commit with
note.  Notes are designed to be scalable.  See e.g. this thread

  [RFD] Proposal for git-svn: storing SVN metadata (git-svn-id) in notes
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/174657

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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