That is frequently true. However, when it is your customers buying the hardware then it's a bit rude to be wasteful. On the other hand, the repository conversio

That is frequently true. However, when it is your customers buying the hardware then it's a bit rude to be wasteful. On the other hand, the repository conversion that GCC did was an extreme case. Their SVN repository had 287k commits in it, and I've only heard tales of larger ones.