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remove old note about unused needing lots of memory; it's used bloom filters for a while to run in constant ram

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Joey Hess 2014-06-18 18:39:19 -04:00
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@ -13,11 +13,6 @@ git-annex is designed for scalability. The key points are:
but git-annex is designed so that it does not need to hold all but git-annex is designed so that it does not need to hold all
the details about your repository in memory. the details about your repository in memory.
The one exception is that [[todo/git-annex_unused_eats_memory]],
because it *does* need to hold the whole repo state in memory. But
that is still considered a bug, and hoped to be solved one day.
Luckily, that command is not often used.
* Many files can be managed. The limiting factor is git's own * Many files can be managed. The limiting factor is git's own
limitations in scaling to repositories with a lot of files, and as git limitations in scaling to repositories with a lot of files, and as git
improves this will improve. Scaling to hundreds of thousands of files improves this will improve. Scaling to hundreds of thousands of files