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Possible World Record: Most commits to main branch on GitHub (github.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by csm10495@sh.itjust.works to c/git@programming.dev
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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 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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[-] nous@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Was this you? 🫤

[-] Pmmeyourtoaster@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

So what's next?

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 years ago

Part of me wants to try to look into the git cli to try to see why some of the hangs happen. I don't think any sort of hang with no output (at least with -v) should happen normally.

Who knows if I'll get to that point.

Otherwise I'll let it just keep committing.

this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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