Re: .git directory tree as tar-file

2016-09-19 Thread Anatoly Borodin
Hi Martin, if multiple small loose files are the problem, this could be interesting for you: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gc This command is run automatically from time to time, and you can configure it or run manually. PS To see how bad the situation is, you can use https://git-scm.com/docs/g

Re: .git directory tree as tar-file

2016-09-19 Thread Jacob Keller
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Martin Bammer wrote: > Hi, > > it would be nice to have an option to have a .git.tar instead of the .git > directory tree. This tree quickly gets very big and copy and compare actions > take very long. I've observed that even in small projects with only a few > fi

.git directory tree as tar-file

2016-09-19 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi, it would be nice to have an option to have a .git.tar instead of the .git directory tree. This tree quickly gets very big and copy and compare actions take very long. I've observed that even in small projects with only a few files the .git tree can contain several thousand entries. Especially