diff --git a/rhodecode/lib/base.py b/rhodecode/lib/base.py
--- a/rhodecode/lib/base.py
+++ b/rhodecode/lib/base.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 Provides the BaseController class for subclassing.
 """
-import copy
-
 from pylons import config, tmpl_context as c, request, session
 from pylons.controllers import WSGIController
 from pylons.templating import render_mako as render
@@ -64,9 +62,9 @@ class BaseRepoController(BaseController)
         super(BaseRepoController, self).__before__()
         if c.repo_name:
 
-            r, dbrepo = self.scm_model.get(c.repo_name, retval='repo')
+            c.rhodecode_repo, dbrepo = self.scm_model.get(c.repo_name, retval='repo')
 
-            if r is not None:
+            if c.rhodecode_repo is not None:
                 c.repository_followers = \
                     self.scm_model.get_followers(c.repo_name)
                 c.repository_forks = self.scm_model.get_forks(c.repo_name)
@@ -74,8 +72,3 @@ class BaseRepoController(BaseController)
                 c.repository_followers = 0
                 c.repository_forks = 0
 
-            # Since RhodeCode uses heavy memory caching we make a deepcopy
-            # of object taken from cache. This way we lose reference to cached
-            # instance in memory and keep it relatively small even for
-            # very large number of changesets
-            c.rhodecode_repo = copy.copy(r)