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How can a news outlet even have 270GB of source code to begin with? That’s like 2’000 times the entire Linux kernel…

• bloopernova 2y ago
  Images/Video maybe? Though I would not want to use that git repo!
  • tokai 2y ago
    Apparently its 5000 repos, somehow.
  • buggeryorkshire 2y ago
    'git clone' Fuck
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• nick238 2y ago
  Multiple forks, huge blobs of data that someone stuck into a repo for some reason (had issues where someone would git add -A without a good .gitignore and wind up with several ~50-100 MB generated files in a repo)...
• mark242 2y ago
  One node_modules directory?
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• sureIy 2y ago
  Easy. It’s not code. NYT regularly creates interactive stories and those creative developers have no idea how to deal with assets. I deal with that category often and our little projects reach half a gig unless I catch it in time. No PRs, just commit all, merge from remote and push.
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• prmoustache 2y ago
  It doesn't have to be their source code. They mught just have local fork of every single public repo they have used at least once in a project. I don't know a single company that does cleanup of repos that are unused so it can grow quickly.
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• cbsks 2y ago
  Here’s the repo list: https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt https://files.catbox.moe/jx7ksm.txt It’s a lot.
• SilverBirch 2y ago
  The New York Times is a mini-game company with a newspaper attached.[1] [1]:https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1774413955940639199/photo/1 https://x.com/ballmatthew/status/1774413955940639199/photo/1
• Turing_Machine 2y ago
  They don't. The person who tweeted/xed/whatever doesn't know what he's talking about. 270 gigs of data? Entirely possible. 270 gigs of source code? YeahNo.