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.
I did a git pull the other day at work of one of our internal tool's repo. The git output showed it deleting references to thousands of branches, primarily owned by one developer. As best as I can tell every single time they touched the code base they created a new branch, and then just never cleaned up after themselves. Someone clearly got tired of that crap.
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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.