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Assuming they are deduping based on content hash it shouldn’t be that big a deal. Worst case it’s the size of npm itself.

• fastball 7y ago
  Well yeah, but at that point you should just be cloning NPM on 2/2/20 as well.
• account42 7y ago
  https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault https://archiveprogram.github.com/#arctic-code-vault > The snapshot will consist of the HEAD of the default branch of each repository, minus any binaries larger than 100KB in size. Each repository will be packaged as a single TAR file. 100KB is a very low limit, many repos will be useless
  • koolba 7y ago
    100KB per file would cover most JS projects. Even those with a checked nose_modules would be entirely included as the dependencies are already expanded.
    • jkarjala 7y ago
      However, many projects have resources (e.g PNG or JPG images) which are larger than 100kB. These will be lost...