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A branch doesn't use any more space than a commit... I'm curious what their complaint was with a large number of branches? There are various repositories with
by 0zymandiass 2y ago
A branch doesn't use any more space than a commit... I'm curious what their complaint was with a large number of branches?
There are various repositories with 500k+ commits
- dizhn 2y agoIt might be something silly like the number of items in the Branches dropbox menu.
- justincormack 2y agoThat actually worked really well, and provides great branch search features when you have lots.
- JasonSage 2y agoI’m assuming GitHub has a fair amount of database/cache overhead for most things, especially branches. I think that most things the web client sees are all database content and that there’s no usage of git/filesystem in any hot paths for web views. So I can easily see why having many branches is more storage than the same number of commits.
- justincormack 2y agoWe appeared on a list of the top 10 most egregious users of github so I assume they had database entries for these…