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Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2008–2026), in 14 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Becomes very slow as repository growsUnreviewed
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Becomes very slow as repository growsUnreviewed
20082026- Merges occasionally become exponentially slow, making the repo completely unusable2026-04-14
- Becomes very slow as the repository grows in size2015-10-29
- Cherry-picked patch pushes leave repositories unusable; unrecord is slow2008-03-25
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 13 complaints
- Merges occasionally become exponentially slow, making the repo completely unusable2026-04-14
- Basic operations take 30 minutes on a 200k-line codebase, making it unusable2025-02-15
- Constantly confused about which commands fix non-standard situations2022-10-09
- Tooling is hard to use for bigger teams and requires an oldschool workflow2020-01-11
- Merges sometimes take hours to resolve a conflict, at the worst times2018-10-17
- Performance is very slow even on moderately sized codebases2018-09-20
- Accepts large binary files silently, and the problem only surfaces later during revert2018-05-15
- Merges with identical line changes could take so long the merge never finished2018-04-11
- Operations slow down exponentially as history grows, forcing users to migrate away2017-04-09
- Cannot hold more than one branch in a directory, so switching contexts means cloning into new directories2016-10-02
- Becomes very slow as the repository grows in size2015-10-29
- Darcs drags unrelated commits along when cherry-picking one, impossible to understand why2015-03-03
- Cherry-picked patch pushes leave repositories unusable; unrecord is slow2008-03-25