Re:How I Use GitHub Releases for Painless Shipping
by toomuchtodo on Monday October 23, 2017 @11:21AM
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> Of course, you can just clone the git repo.
Cloning a repo is more intensive on Github's infrastructure then grabbing a zip file or tarball and pushing it into an object store with heavy caching in front of it. There was an open source project that was using excessive resources within Github's infrastructure by using git clone to update itself over a large audience.
Cloning a repo is more intensive on Github's infrastructure then grabbing a zip file or tarball and pushing it into an object store with heavy caching in front of it. There was an open source project that was using excessive resources within Github's infrastructure by using git clone to update itself over a large audience.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...