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[Arne Babenhauserheide]

David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr> writes:

> On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 19:33 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Raffaele Salmaso <raffaele at salmaso.org> writes:
>> > Named branches can be heavy, expecially with large repositories.
>> 
>> What do you mean by heavy? And did you test this?
>> (I once ran tests with 10k branches without getting into problems)
>> 
>
> As they store the branch information in the changeset for ever. Using
> branches locally and never share them is not a problem though.

Keep in mind that this stored information does not take much space (and
it quickly disappears in compression) and that if branches are closed,
they do not clutter the interface. Therefore they are not heavy: a
single commit hash takes up much more space than the branch information.

Best wishes,
Arne
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