On 2011-05-04 at 22:50:59 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ ... ] > > Having a lot of those tags sitting in a repo may or may not slow down > > git-related tools, I don't know yet (but will try with gitk later > > today). > > That would indeed be great to know beforehand. I can't think of a good > reason why that should slow anything down, though -- it needs to have > the hash keys indexed, too, anyway. I have just populated my local copy of haiku's git repo with >40000 of those tags (in less than a minute) and tested gitk with that. It was a bit slower on startup, but no problem, really. Pulling all those tags into a second repo took 18 seconds. cheers, Oliver