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| author | Mx Kookie <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-10-31 20:20:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Mx Kookie <kookie@spacekookie.de> | 2020-12-21 05:19:21 +0100 |
| commit | c624a885ad7fdd3c5fae018bcc4233462c85713f (patch) | |
| tree | 33f72c11c7d683586295385f35c26c9aa3323949 /README.md | |
| parent | 36c832cf52a9c4fd180e4a29da586cfc5128bb00 (diff) | |
README: adding note about handling large git repositories
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 91f450947f2a..9fd050bda2f0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Following is an overview of components in this repository. | licenses | Set of license texts in use by projects in this repository | +## Working with a large repo + +This repository is quite massive, because it contains multiple +subtrees with large histories. If you experience performance +problems, try setting `feature.manyFiles` in your git configuration. +Additionally, when using `git log`, make sure to use `--first-parent` +to get the history of kookienomicon, to avoid seeing subtree histories +instead of the merge commits that you might be more interested in. + ## License |