[petsc-dev] [mpich-discuss] MPICH migration to git

[Sean Farley]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Sean Farley
> <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well … did you try this with the equivalent mercurial feature:
>> largefiles?
>
>
> Nope, feel free. Most of the speedup is independent of the large files
> (which only change the git repo size from 78MB to 50MB).

Righto.

>> Which version of mercurial is this?
>
> 2.4.2

Nevermind, the patch I saw was on irc and I can't find it again (no
logging enabled). Supposedly, the chunked data writer was
reinitializing the connection  at every-ish chunk.

>> Also, what files did
>> you deem were "fat"
>
> A smattering of powerpoint slides, pdfs, random binaries, and a few very
> large log files. Note that this was a performance experiment and don't care
> about which files. In practice, I'd suggest managing fewer (or even none).

Huh? Do you mean not even worrying about separating binary files?