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Re:Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:55PM (#33398015)
Same here (I live in Poland). 2 + 2 family with small kids. Hot water is 5% of my overall gas bills. Rest is heating.
Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @03:54PM (#7026532)
Yes.

As described here http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million... Facebook code base (~60 MLOC) if almost 4 times bigger than Linux 3.1 (a mere 15 MLOC).

Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @03:46PM (#7026482)
Branches in git are exactly pointers to graph. If you delete such a pointer you loose your branch.

Even worse - with next git gc you will loose your data as parts of graph with no pointer is assumed to be dead by git.

Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @03:37PM (#7026406)
Not true any longer.

As described in http://mercurial.808500.n3.nabble.com/named-branches-vs-book...

> We have users with thousands of named branches in production and have > done tests on up to 10k branches and the performance impact is fairly > minimal.