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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by dgellow on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:01PM (#48213305)
I was part of an org with more than 15k repos
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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by clutch_coder99 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:53AM (#48218438)
Damn that's alot. I'm wondering how many engineers handled all that?
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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by dgellow on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:08AM (#48218951)
I cannot share much details, but one thing: livegrep had no issues handling that many repos! That project is such a blessing

https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep

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