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Re:IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open s... by pierrec on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:08PM (#11779624)
>GitHub should look into this, otherwise we get git repos with directories that are thousands in length.

In a way, Github already looked into it extensively while helping resolve the issue where CocoaPods monopolized their servers and hit CPU rate-limiting. Whether it's abusive or not was already debated ad nauseum when it happened, but either way they came to a set of solutions which might help anyone else wanting to use Github for package management:

http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Pos...

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