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1. clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 08-Dec-2022 07:05:46 UTC clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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   Was reading the #git update-index manpage for other reasons and discovered the #SplitIndex mode.
   
   This sounds very useful for my huge #GitAnnex archive of pictures, with I think over 100 000 files. A git add can take many seconds in normal mode.
   
   Split index mode allows git to keep a big "static" index and a smaller index that gets updated every time you add/remove/update a file. You can fine-tune how many files need to be updated before the big index is touched.
   
   The feature was added in v2.1.0 in 2014, but v2.22.0 in 2019 are the first release notes not to call it "the experimental split-index mode". The v2.1.0 notes don't even mention the feature at all.
   
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   • clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 27-Jan-2023 12:54:48 UTC clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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     • Greg A. Woods
     @Greg A. Woods Yes, this is not replicated across the wire as it doesn't affect how commits are stored. It's a local optimization.
     
     I still haven't tried it, but it should help any repo where adding files takes time.