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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by masklinn on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:32AM (#19825823)
I'm surprised github runs regular git. I'd always assumed they were emulating it, especially with the lag we've observed between github-api and github-git at $DAYJOB (update repo 1 via api, update repo 2 via api, fetch repo 1 and repo 2 via git, we've had cases where the repo 2 update was visible but not the repo 1).
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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by pvorb on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:13AM (#19826210)
There was a talk about "Scaling Git at GitHub" [1] a few years ago at Git Merge. While it may no longer be accurate, it still gives some insight into how GitHub is run.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xK5yaWTt0R0

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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by ak217 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:05PM (#19828111)
I think github runs https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 which is not regular git.
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