>> Codeberg doesn’t have (yet) the same deduplication that Github has, with >> our 389 forks and ~500M per repository, that’s almost 200G! > > Which is... almost nothing? You can get 26 TB HDD for ~750 EUR. > Average ThinkPad these days comes with 1 TB drive.
It's less about the sheer size of the data, and more about the CPU and I/O scaling complexity that comes with it. When GitHub is contacting individual projects to manage the strain on their infrastructure, it's serious. Here are two cases (Nix and Homebrew) where GitHub has complained about the strain on their servers. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-core-team-update-2025-11-30-github-scaling-issues/72709 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383 And, here's a hypothetical article by the original author considering the merits of implementing Git on top of Postgres. https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/26/git-in-postgres.html
