Git performance problems with large device count

[jerji]

Dear Maintainer,

My company uses Oxidized to store device configurations for various kinds of network devices. One of our instances currently has about 700 devices and the bare git repo has grown to 300~GB. Currently, it times out when requesting versions for devices probably because of the size of the repo.

Are there any optimizations you think might help in this situation or is there any profiling I could help with? Oxidized is an important tool for us and want to help where we can. :)

[robertcheramy]

Could you try running git gc on your repository?

[jerji]

I started it over night, we will see when it completes. Last tried to run it the server ran out of disk space while it was completing. I have since copied it to a new drive.