How large can a repository be?

popezilla · Post by **popezilla** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:11 am

Or, a better question might be how are they meant to be used?

I use one repository per customer and so the repository can grow quite large with all of that customer's projects in it.

Or is a single repository meant to be used for a single project?

ericsink · Post by **ericsink** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:24 am

In general, we like to keep separate repositories for things which are completely, entirely distinct. You can't share, branch or label across repositories, so if there is any chance of a relationship between something, go ahead and put it in the same repository.

You can put lots of stuff in a repository. A repository with tens of thousands of files will not be a problem.

Our test suite has a test repository with 500,000 files in it.