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Re:Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parq... by roncesvalles on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:32PM (#47431061)
How would shallow clone be more stressful for GitHub than a regular clone?
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parq... by enchilada on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:45PM (#47431221)
Shallow clones (and the resulting lack of shared history data) break many assumptions that packfile optimisations rely on.

See also: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/225

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