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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
5 points by zdw 6 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment




git 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.




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