We recently crossed the 1,000 monthly active users mark, about 2,500 packages and ~20 million lines of code! The most recent clone I did of the repo clocked in at an astonishing 178GB. [But] I noticed that the versioned branch seeming to get harder and harder to clone because it kept getting so huge.
I've been focused recently on understanding and mitigating the growth of a few internal repositories. Some of these are growing much larger than expected for the number of contributors and there are multiple aspects to why this growth is so large.
The main issue plaguing these repositories is that deltas are not being computed against objects that appear at the same path. While the size of these files at [the] tip is one aspect of growth that would prevent this issue.
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