Can you work in a repo with fifty million files? Can Git? I just checked on my Windows machine using Everything and there are 15,960,619 files total including every executable, image, datafile, &c.
Out of curiosity what does your IDE do when you do a global symbol rename in a repository with fifty million files?
I'm absolutely a real human, and I think this just might be too much context for me! Perhaps I am not general enough.
I thought this was common knowledge but I guess not: Google's monopoly famously has over a billion files. No, Git cannot handle it. Their whole software stack is developed around this from the ground up. But they are one of the largest software employers in the world, so quite a few engineers evidently do make do with 200x more than 50 million files.
Having worked on a codebase like that, you need to use some extra plugins to get git to work. And even then, it’s very slow. Like 15-30 seconds for a git status to run even with caching. Global renames with an IDE are impossible but tools like sed and grep still work well. Usually there is a module system that maps to the org structure and you don’t venture outside of your modules or dependency modules very often.
Out of curiosity what does your IDE do when you do a global symbol rename in a repository with fifty million files?
I'm absolutely a real human, and I think this just might be too much context for me! Perhaps I am not general enough.