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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
- Terretta 10mo agogit and github are two different things. > The [Nixpkgs] repository totals 83GB with half a million tree objects and 20,000 forks. A local clone is only 2.5GB — the rest is GitHub’s fork network storing every pull request branch and merge commit. > [For CocoaPods' Specs repo] the culprit was shallow clones, which force GitHub’s servers to compute which objects the client already has. Etc.