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I would completely agree with you if that was the way GitHub presented that feature, being open about the consequences of adopting it. They haven't done that, and as a result their…

It is not disingenuous if it is exactly what they are doing. The entire cause of this problem, and the reason it breaks so many things, is because they are trying to monetize bandw…

I wouldn't have characterized that as evil per se, but the fact that they are just not disclosing these restrictions is at the very least a communications failure, if not a shady b…

My argument was that this was actually bad for their business. This is not a customer-friendly move.

Yes, my criticism was not that they're trying to make money from this, but rather that they are crippling their core product in an effort to monetize it some more.

I do, actually. I just noticed that there was a large Kernel git repo hosted on Github, and figured it would make a good example of a large, popular repository. I'm not surprised L…

The way I understand it, it should be possible, though it's more complicated since they seem to infer the LFS URL from the repo URL by default. So if you wanted to say keep your re…

I am the author and yes this was very much unapologetically hyperbolic. At least it got the conversation started.