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
Was this you? 🫤
Some people just want to see the world burn. Haha.
It feels like it’s radiating chaotic energy for the sake of learning and I’m a fan
So what’s next?
This might be good to cross post to !programming_horror@programming.dev … 😱
I wonder if the size of the commits also plays a role.
The latests commits are just an index being incremented, it’d be interesting to update the script to replace and commit lorem impsum text (maybe two or three paragraphs would be a good base)
