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Merge branch 'kh/doc-fast-import-historical' 

Doc update.

* kh/doc-fast-import-historical:
  doc: fast-import: contextualize the hardware cost
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Junio C Hamano 2025-08-04 08:10:36 -07:00
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@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ amount of memory usage and processing time. Assuming the frontend
is able to keep up with fast-import and feed it a constant stream of data,
import times for projects holding 10+ years of history and containing
100,000+ individual commits are generally completed in just 1-2
hours on quite modest (~$2,000 USD) hardware.
hours on quite modest hardware (~$2,000 USD in 2007).

Most bottlenecks appear to be in foreign source data access (the
source just cannot extract revisions fast enough) or disk IO (fast-import