On Oct 20, 5:46 pm, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Dun Peal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi. I just finished porting a very large SVN repsoitory to Git. The
> > repository contains many (tens of thousands of) tags.
>
> I won't ask...

We tag each release. We follow "release early, release often". So, we
have many tags.

> I suppose the right thing to do is to only display a subset of the tags,
> which would require a UI to search/browse the tags.

Yes. Would you accept a patch that does that?

> Furthermore, I suspect
> there's a performance penalty in having repositories with such a large
> number of tags - all the tags are fetched from the repository in several
> places - so this should probably be handled as well.

Hm, can you clarify?  The tags are physically stored in one long text
file: `.git/packed-refs`. So for us, that file does contain several
tens of thousands of lines, but I'm not sure that would be a
performance problem, seeing that it's just reading a file with a few
tens of thousands of lines, which shouldn't tax modern hardway.

> Is this a private Gitorious installation?

Yes.

Thanks, D

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