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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by trasz on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:30AM (#31764410)
Yeah, branches are slow. Otoh blame is fast compared to git.
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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by capitainenemo on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:16AM (#31766304)
These days mercurial has a cached blame/annotate called "fast annotate" which I love because of one particular awesome feature --deleted which must be seen to be appreciated I think.

I have this alias in my .hgrc file fad=fastannotate -u -n -wbB --deleted

It's by the Facebook engineer Jun Wu who also made the even more awesome "absorb"

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