title: Subversion very slow
body: <p>I am working on a project where the branches folder contain at least 300 different branch (copy of the trunk) which is will no more be used. Since SVN is running more and more slowly I wonder if deleting those branches will make subversion behave operate faster?</p>
  
  <p>Other people in my team say that since the source code will still be on the server, so it wont change anything. (So branch stay undeleted).</p>
  
  <p>But I read something on Subversion before (I dont remember where) saying that HEAD is managed a little bit different that previous version which could increase the speed of the repository.</p>
  
  <p>Which one of these hold true ?</p>