From d73fe19d931f22307e5118b3f788304665de2db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kuhn Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:41:10 +0200 Subject: Recommend Git's manyFiles feature (#25977) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Git 2.24 introduced a feature flag for repositories with many files, see: https://github.blog/2019-11-03-highlights-from-git-2-24/#feature-macros Since Spack's Git repository contains roughly 8,500 files, it can be worthwhile to enable this, especially on slow file systems such as NFS: ``` $ hyperfine --warmup 3 'cd spack-default; git status' 'cd spack-manyfiles; git status' Benchmark #1: cd spack-default; git status Time (mean ± σ): 3.388 s ± 0.095 s [User: 256.2 ms, System: 625.8 ms] Range (min … max): 3.168 s … 3.535 s 10 runs Benchmark #2: cd spack-manyfiles; git status Time (mean ± σ): 168.7 ms ± 10.9 ms [User: 98.6 ms, System: 126.1 ms] Range (min … max): 144.8 ms … 188.0 ms 19 runs Summary 'cd spack-manyfiles; git status' ran 20.09 ± 1.42 times faster than 'cd spack-default; git status' ``` --- lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst | 2 +- lib/spack/docs/index.rst | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst index c1585a0fb4..ba5b93a567 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Getting Spack is easy. You can clone it from the `github repository .. code-block:: console - $ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git + $ git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git This will create a directory called ``spack``. diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst index fb9c669c12..dcebcdfb33 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/index.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/index.rst @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ package: .. code-block:: console - $ git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git + $ git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git $ cd spack/bin $ ./spack install libelf -- cgit v1.2.3-60-g2f50