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Possible World Record: Most commits to main branch on GitHub (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by csm10495 to c/[email protected]

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I decided to see how many commits GitHub (and git) could take before acting kind of wonky. At ~19 million commits (and counting) to master: it's wonky.

The GitHub API has periodic issues merging/creating PRs. (I use PRs since that is more reliable than keeping a local master up to date via pulling at this point).

GitHub reports... infinity commits. Doing a full clone from GitHub Actions is taking around 2 hours.

Using:

git pull origin master

to update my local master hangs for a while before even printing anything.

If anyone has seen a public GitHub repo with more commits to its main branch, let me know.

If anyone wants to see how slow wonky git acts at this scale, feel free to clone.

Edit: Update to this post is: https://sh.itjust.works/post/672069

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people just want to see the world burn. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels like it's radiating chaotic energy for the sake of learning and I'm a fan

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love it.

These are the types of people to find something "Huh, that's a weird reaction"