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Anyone know what this is?
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Their repositories are really something, and the commits seem to only happen in bursts, I expected them to do a few commits every day, instead it's like 10 days a year with 1700+ commits total.
But I wouldn't assume they are conventionally malicious, more like a ~~paperclip~~ storage optimiser
Agreed, leads me to think they have some kind of script that rewrites filenames and directory names to be symbolic/symmetric and they run it manually rather than on some automated schedule. Then by storing it as a git repo they can find open git hosting and just mirror it there (the lastest copy I saw was like 7 or 8 GB so definitely not tiny, but also not enough to take down your average self hosting project)