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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by bokwoon on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:27PM (#31035261)
> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint

GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys, the cascade delete must have been manually implemented.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486494

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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by ncmncm on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:59AM (#31037002)
That it took a half hour to do all the pointless activity says something.
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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by ric2b on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:05PM (#31061828)
They use Rails, right? It's probably a cascade delete but done on the application, Rails makes that very easy.
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