I'm doing some testing on a large Git repository and am finding local
clones to take a very long time. After some investigation I've
determined that the problem is due to a very large number of tags
(~38k). Even with hard links, it just takes a really long time to
visit that many inodes. As it happens, I don't care for most of these
tags and will prune many of them anyway but I expect that over time it
will creep back up again. Have others reported this problem before and
is there a workaround? Perhaps Git should switch to a single-file
block text or binary format once a large number of tags becomes
present in a repository.
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