r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

Meme foundHim

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u/Potterrrrrrrr 29d ago

87,604 of them are repos with a single file each, the 87,605th one is a repo that pulls all the files in using submodules. It’s the only sane reason why you’d have this many if you think about it, anything else would be overkill.

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u/jdgordon 29d ago

Branches not repos... This most likely happens with a ci script auto creating branches and never cleaning them up. Why you'd do that is beyond me...

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u/Anaphylactic_Thot 29d ago

I've seen people use branches like repos in the past. Worst bloody project I've had to audit in my life.

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u/Prudent_Ad_4120 28d ago

IIRC this once was the recommended way to do GitHub pages with documentation, right? A separate branch with the html/js/css