Re: Navigating an enormous code base

[Marcus Harnisch]

On 28/04/2022 16.30, John Yates wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 3:14 AM Marcus Harnisch <mh-gmane@online.de> wrote:
> > I don't bother and don't partition the project (comprising of 10k files,
> > and 50+ nested subprojects)
>
> That's puny.  In my code base a typical 'project' (a tree rooted
> at a Makefile) has ~2k files.  I work on foundational elements
> so my workspaces include those components that can be
> affected by my changes.  A workspace is ~220GB.  There are
> 400+ direct siblings of handful of projects where my efforts are
> focused.

<shrug> All I can tell from this is that creating the full index will 
probably take a bit longer. Why don't you give it a try and then decide?