i used to work in git analytics and saw the most unimaginable repos. 500gb repos with one commit. repos where the source was in the commit message. repos with millions of commits consisting of bogus utf8, and so on. repos where they dont use branches, only remotes, etc etc. every usecase annihilated some old startup mvp code somewhere it felt like

we wrote our own in memory client but even before that, stock git client would always finish, it was just a matter of how long you were willing to wait. maybe we were lucky overall