This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git's internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git repositories that match related database sharding techniques.
Source: Git's database internals V: scalability, an article by Derrick Stolee.
I had recently upgraded my NAS from FreeBSD 13.0 to FreeBSD 13.1. Unfortunately, I found out that the Deluge package was faulting on startup. It turns out that when FreeBSD updated the
libtorrent-rasterbarpackage, it had broken the Python bindings, and thus Deluge. However, the old Deluge and Python binding package were still installed – they just didn’t work anymore due tolibtorrentABI.While it’d be ideal if this were fixed upstream, I didn’t have the patience for this right now. So, I decided to downgrade the
libtorrent-rasterbarpackage to be compatible with the Python bindings. There were no other dependent packages, so I figured this was safe. Unfortunately, I had to deal with a few curveballs along the way…