Subject: Re: [boost] [git] conversion stalled
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-09 16:49:00
2013/10/9 Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]>:
> On 8 Oct 2013 at 14:13, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> That's alarming. It never took as much as 2 hrs to complete in the past
>
> I see that .gitattributes now contains explicit eol and mime type
> mappings for every file in the repo. I advised you against that - I
> think it will make conversion performance slow from all the lookups,
> never mind poor old git trying to parse that map on every file
> checkout.
The commit that added the file is labeled "Add Niall Douglas'
.gitattributes file".
Care to repeat what you did advise exactly?
Cheers, Daniel