We used to have a large (>20GB) svn repository, I never noticed tags (which was part of the build process) taking any time, certainly sub-second. However the b

We used to have a large (>20GB) svn repository, I never noticed tags (which was part of the build process) taking any time, certainly sub-second. However the branching process in svn is a right pain, if you work in branches. Depends on what your code is if you need the overhead and risk of branches I guess.