Taking the plunge...

[Martin Geisler]

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> writes:

> Am Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2011, 12:13:46 schrieb Dennis Brakhane:
>> feature-named-branch-workflow has been accepted. IIRC, hundreds of
>> named branches
>> are no problem, things start to get messy with thousands of branches.
>
> I did a test with 10,000 named branches and noticed no relevant
> degradation. Maybe it’s in some command I did not test.

You can clone

  https://bitbucket.org/mg/10k

if you want to experiment with a repository with 10,000 named branches.

I also didn't see any big degradation in performance when using
Mercurial on the command line. What slows down is tools (like Bitbucket
itself) that put all the branch names into a single drop-down menu. In
fact, Chrome dies on my system if I hover over the "branches" drop-down
menu on the Bitbucket page.

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