Git at Facebook Scale

Joshua Redstone (via Hacker News, which has some interesting comments): The test repo has 4 million commits, linear history and about 1.3 million files. The size of the .git directory is about 15GB, and has been repacked with ‘git repack -a -d -f –max-pack-size=10g –depth=100 –window=250’. This repack took about 2 days on a beefy … Continue reading Git at Facebook Scale