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> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:50:35 +0100
> 
> Branching in git is as fast as:
> 
>   echo 7adb0b64823cbdcfbbcac9a9e32c6b435f57d889 > .git/refs/heads/mybranch
> 
> basically writing a 40-char string to a file.

Are all the branches co-located?  If not, how do you cope with the
bootstrap of a new branch, which takes much longer than writing a
string to a file?