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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>,
	Stephen Morton <stephen.c.morton@gmail•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git Scaling: What factors most affect Git performance for a large repo?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:59:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqegpkz4cf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424392969.30029.15.camel@leckie> (David Turner's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:42:49 -0500")

David Turner <dturner@twopensource•com> writes:

> On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 06:38 +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> >    * 'git push'?
>> 
>> This one is not affected by how deep your repo's history is, or how
>> wide your tree is, so should be quick..
>> 
>> Ah the number of refs may affect both git-push and git-pull. I think
>> Stefan knows better than I in this area.
>
> I can tell you that this is a bit of a problem for us at Twitter.  We
> have over 100k refs, which adds ~20MiB of downstream traffic to every
> push.
>
> I added a hack to improve this locally inside Twitter: The client sends
> a bloom filter of shas that it believes that the server knows about; the
> server sends only the sha of master and any refs that are not in the
> bloom filter.  The client  uses its local version of the servers' refs
> as if they had just been sent....

Interesting.

Care to extend the discussion to improve the protocol exchange,
which starts at $gmane/263932 [*1*], where I list the known issues
around the current protocol (and a possible way to correct them in
footnotes)?


[Footnote]

*1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/263898/focus=263932

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-20 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-19 21:26 Git Scaling: What factors most affect Git performance for a large repo? Stephen Morton
2015-02-19 22:21 ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-19 23:06   ` Stephen Morton
2015-02-19 23:15     ` Stefan Beller
2015-02-19 23:29 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-02-20  0:04   ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-20 12:09     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-02-20 12:11       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-02-20 14:25       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-02-20 21:04         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-02 19:36           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-03-02 20:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-20 22:02         ` Sebastian Schuberth
2015-02-24 12:44         ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-02 19:42           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2015-02-21  3:51       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-19 23:38 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-20  0:42   ` David Turner
2015-02-20 20:59     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-23 20:23       ` David Turner
2015-02-21  4:01     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-25 12:02       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-02-20  0:03 ` brian m. carlson
2015-02-20 16:06   ` Stephen Morton
2015-02-20 16:38     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-02-20 17:16     ` brian m. carlson
2015-02-20 22:08   ` Sebastian Schuberth
2015-02-20 22:58     ` brian m. carlson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-02-20  6:57 Martin Fick
2015-02-20 18:29 ` David Turner
2015-02-20 20:37   ` Martin Fick
2015-02-21  0:41     ` David Turner
2015-02-20 19:27 ` Randall S. Becker

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