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Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? by jeremyjh on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:27PM (#49458274)
If you haven't read this, you really have no idea what they are dealing with. https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
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Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? by flohofwoe on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:57AM (#49460866)
They could throttle git operations to a level which isn't noticeable by normal 'human' usage but seriously slows down automated usage. These are basically DDOS attacks.
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