(4.1) Gitlab with gitolite slows down with lot of history in gitolite.
Created by: raphendyr
Gitlab makes a temporary clone of the gitolite-admin repo every time it needs to make a change. This gets progressively slower over time (we had 1050 commits in the repo and all new operations seemed to fail in the web UI due to timeouts).
We worked around this by squashing the commits in the gitolite-admin repo, but this leaves a lot of cleanup to be done (duplicate keys mostly).