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Recommend the git option `feature.manyFiles` due to the size of the Chromium repo.

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Change-Id: I7da21057260382bc11b2d26d4e128ed02d368cae
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4708749
Reviewed-by: Vignesh Shenvi <vshenvi@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Hong Xu <xuhong@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Leonid Baraz <lbaraz@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1173772}
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docs/git_tips.md

@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ The following resources can provide background on how Git works:
understand Git, here's a cheat sheet to quickly remind you of all the
commands you need.
## Optimizing (Speeding up) Git for a Large Repository
Git has numerous options, among which some are intended to optimize for large
repositories.
[feature.manyFiles](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-featuremanyFiles)
is a convenient option that turns on the group of options that optimize for
large repositories. Run the following inside the Chromium git repository:
git config feature.manyFiles true
## Configuring the output of "git log"
By default, the date that "git log" displays is the "author date." In Chromium,