[OJFord]

> when you run “git checkout” and it takes up to 3 hours, or even a simple “git status” takes almost 10 minutes to run. That’s assuming you can get past the “git clone”, which takes 12+ hours.

How on Earth can anybody work like that?

I'd have thought you may as well ditch git at that point, since nobody's going to be using it as a tool, surely?

    git commit -m 'Add today\'s work - night all!' && git push; shutdown

[aanm1988]

You can't, and microsoft isn't. They built this so they can use git without those problems.

[stinos]

How on Earth can anybody work like that?

Since it's look like they are still migrating I don't think a lot of people actually did work like that. Maybe just a couple of times to figure out how long it would actually take. Or maybe those who really use it are actually doing shallow clones which would probably take much less time. Actually shallow clone is nice but doesn't seem to be known very well. I use it often if I know I won't ever need the full history anyway. Also great to shave time of CI builds.

[OJFord]

Shallow clones are great, until they're not. I don't think I've ever (having tried a few times) cleanly cloned 'below' the graft point when I've needed to, or a different branch.

[metamet]

It's called Pomodoro++.