michal8181's comments

On: Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain

[michal8181]

Same here (I live in Poland). 2 + 2 family with small kids. Hot water is 5% of my overall gas bills. Rest is heating.

On: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

[michal8181]

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).

On: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

[michal8181]

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.

On: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

[michal8181]

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.