On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:55:42 +0200, Sumana Harihareswara 
<suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

* A bigger repo is obviously slower to download in full; is it also
slower to search or otherwise work with? How much slower? Most of our
developers are probably not on SSDs yet.

It is, but only when you're working a lot with the history (such as blaming, 
using git log pickaxe or checking out really old versions), so removing the 
history obviously will not help in these cases. Creating commits, pushing or 
pulling is not any faster nor slower.

--
Matma Rex

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