does linking improve performance and what affects does a change have on the component

[PawelSpoon]

Describe the issue

syncing with remote repo seems slow.
i have a project with 70 components, all those components / files are actually in the same folder, belong logically together.
during setup i did not use the link feature but defined all the components separately.

i had to solve a merge issue a way back and there i saw that due to that separate definition i end up with lot of copies of this one folder. so my question: if i define only one component and link all the others to that, will that speed up ?

secondly if i do that, will that break the history, comments etc of the existing components, their translations etc. ?

thanks a lot

I already tried

i did read the docu about linking

To Reproduce the issue
n.a.

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[nijel]

It will speed up some operations - the repository does not have to be fetched and updated several times. The parsing of the files will stay the same.

Changing the URL from actual remote to weblate:// one will not break anything. Just make sure that everything is on the same revision before doing that to avoid parsing older files.

[PawelSpoon]

thank you

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