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docs: warn about GitDB performance with large commits #2115

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Expand Up @@ -513,6 +513,12 @@ The GitDB is a pure-python implementation of the git object database. It is the

repo = Repo("path/to/repo", odbt=GitDB)

.. warning::
``GitDB`` may fail or become extremely slow when traversing trees in
repositories with very large commits (thousands of changed files in a
single commit). If you encounter ``RecursionError`` or excessive
slowness during tree traversal, switch to ``GitCmdObjectDB`` instead.


GitCmdObjectDB
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