many files, simple history

short version: will git handle large number of files efficiently if the history is simple and linear, i.e., without merges?

longer version: i'm considering using git to keep track of my installed user programs/files on my linux machine, mainly because i want to be able to uninstall software cleanly and completely (i almost always build from source code and install in non-standard locations). so i would want to use git to keep track of every program i install or uninstall. this way, i could go back and uninstall a program simply by finding the commit when it was installed, get the list of files that were added as a result, and remove them (and of course, commit the removals into git so i can always undo the uninstall too!)

so the history stored in git will be linear and consist of file additions and removals. but this will potentially involve many files. will git be able to handle this (as yet hypothetical) situation efficiently?

/ali