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fnord77 2 days ago

Which repo were they referring to that was growing too big vertically?

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qrobit 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The biggest very active repo I know of is nixpkgs, and I heard it was a stress test for GitHub already.

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WorldMaker 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's probably a horror story if we ever find out.

Given its prominence in some of these other discussions from GitHub of a repo always on their performance radar now my gut instinct is that it could be the Windows monorepo.

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sofixa 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Windows? We know it's on Git, and Microsoft owning GitHub means it would make sense for it to be on GitHub.

Alternatively, something from IBM with 60 years of commit history.

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jacques_chester 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Possibly Shopify's monolith.

Or alternatively someone is doing something very silly.

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byroot 2 days ago | parent [-]

Nah, they replaced GitHub with some in-house videcoded stuff a few months ago, and from what I hear from the grapevine it's not going well.

But there's a number of other big private repos with a high rate of merge on GitHub, and indeed it's currently a bit painful, e.g. the subroutine that check whether a PR can be merged tend to take ages. So my read is that they want to better support these big customers out of concern that they might leave too.

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derwiki 2 days ago | parent [-]

https://github.com/tobi/walgit

	▲	jacques_chester a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is just cringeworthy, even for Tobi.

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flykespice 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Possibly this dude's repos? https://github.com/xesf

Every day, he sends hundreds of commits to his (most likely vibecoded) repositories of retro games recompilation.

	▲	fnord77 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		they were implying the mystery repo was getting about 3 million pushes per day