On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:55:42 +0200, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
* A bigger repo is obviously slower to download in
full; is it also
slower to search or otherwise work with? How much slower? Most of our
developers are probably not on SSDs yet.
It is, but only when you're working a lot with the history (such as blaming, using git
log pickaxe or checking out really old versions), so removing the history obviously will
not help in these cases. Creating commits, pushing or pulling is not any faster nor
slower.
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Matma Rex