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i used to work in git analytics and saw the most unimaginable repos. 500gb repos with one commit. repos where the source was in the commit message. repos with m
by sitzkrieg 3y ago
i used to work in git analytics and saw the most unimaginable repos. 500gb repos with one commit. repos where the source was in the commit message. repos with millions of commits consisting of bogus utf8, and so on. repos where they dont use branches, only remotes, etc etc. every usecase annihilated some old startup mvp code somewhere it felt like
we wrote our own in memory client but even before that, stock git client would always finish, it was just a matter of how long you were willing to wait. maybe we were lucky overall
- thaliaarchi 3y agoDo you still have a record of any of those weird case repos? Perhaps reported as issues somewhere? I’m working on a tool like git filter-repo and Reposurgeon combined and would love stress tests and edge cases like these.