Jonas Genannt

I have got one repository with 11495 files. These repository consists of jpeg, ttf, png and pdf file types. All files are binary.

I have done some benchmark with git and svn:

git clone (remote,ssh) : 38m49.516s
svn checkout (remote,ssh) : 48m20.330s

Size, after git clone : 23G
Size, after svn checkout : 24G
Size, only files without revision control: 12G

git status : 0m0.634s
svn status : 0m0.654s

Playing with nginx. Here are some random hints:

1.) nginx with php:

/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -g www-data -f "/usr/bin/php-cgi -c /etc/php5/cgi/php-nginx.ini" -P /var/run/fcgi-php.pid

2.) Deny access to .svn directories:

location ~ \.svn { deny all; }

3.) rewrite urls

if ( !-f $request_filename ) {
rewrite ^/images/([A-Za-z]+)\/(.*)$ /images/default/$2 break;
}

The rewrite rule will redirect /images/bar/foo.png if it does not exists to /images/default/foo.png

spwan-fcgi is included in the lighttpd package if you are using lenny. On squeeze and sid spawn-fcgi is an standalone package!