>GitHub should look into this, otherwise we get git repos with directories that are thousands in length. In a way, Github already looked into it extensively wh

>GitHub should look into this, otherwise we get git repos with directories that are thousands in length. In a way, Github already looked into it extensively while helping resolve the issue where CocoaPods monopolized their servers and hit CPU rate-limiting. Whether it's abusive or not was already debated ad nauseum when it happened, but either way they came to a set of solutions which might help anyone else wanting to use Github for package management: http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem/ http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Pos...