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points by fnord77 1 day ago | 0 comments

Which repo were they referring to that was growing too big vertically?

The biggest very active repo I know of is nixpkgs, and I heard it was a stress test for GitHub already.

It's probably a horror story if we ever find out.

Given its prominence in some of these other discussions from GitHub of a repo always on their performance radar now my gut instinct is that it could be the Windows monorepo.

[–] jacques_chester 1 day ago

Possibly Shopify's monolith.

Or alternatively someone is doing something very silly.

[–] byroot 23 hours ago

Nah, they replaced GitHub with some in-house videcoded stuff a few months ago, and from what I hear from the grapevine it's not going well.

But there's a number of other big private repos with a high rate of merge on GitHub, and indeed it's currently a bit painful, e.g. the subroutine that check whether a PR can be merged tend to take ages. So my read is that they want to better support these big customers out of concern that they might leave too.

[–] derwiki 18 hours ago

https://github.com/tobi/walgit

[–] jacques_chester 57 minutes ago

This is just cringeworthy, even for Tobi.

[–] flykespice 17 hours ago

Possibly this dude's repos? https://github.com/xesf

Every day, he sends hundreds of commits to his (most likely vibecoded) repositories of retro games recompilation.

[–] fnord77 11 hours ago

they were implying the mystery repo was getting about 3 million pushes per day