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Comment by smilingsun

From the article:

> The GitHub.com repository is almost 13 GB on disk; simply cloning the repository takes 20 minutes.

Their problem seems to be mainly this. Which I'm surprised that they don't fix, but invent a workaround for. Deleting/rewriting a git repo's history is not impossible and often necessary for these kinds of cases.

parent smilingsun 5 years ago

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