Git is really slow for 100,000 objects. Any fixes?

Question

I have a \"fresh\" git-svn repo (11.13 GB) that has over a 100,000 objects in it.

I have preformed

git fsck
git gc

on the repo afte

Answer 1

You could try passing the --aggressive switch to git gc and see if that helps:

# this will take a while ...
git gc --aggressive

Also, you could use git filter-branch to delete old commits and/or files if you have things which you don't need in your history (e.g., old binary files).