Won't the performance of version control software largely depend on the size of project history and not necessarily LoC? I work on a project where we just surpa

Won't the performance of version control software largely depend on the size of project history and not necessarily LoC? I work on a project where we just surpassed 100k commits in Mercurial, which includes largefile assets. Cloning is a lengthy process - other operations are also slow such as push/pull/stat and occasionally rebase.