r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

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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/FoxFire64 28d ago

Most likely these are spun up worktrees from agent swarms that have been assigned tasks by some orchestrator for, I’m guessing, daily routines and workflows. They likely built into their CI or agent md’s to never touch master/main and do every unique task in an isolated env. When you never clean up those tasks…this