Git at any scale • Hacker News Board

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by kibae » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

wibr wrote: post #14

https://cursor.com/en-US/blog/git-at-any-scale to avoid automatic translations (couldn't find a button to switch)

The language selection is in the footer. Interestingly, the URL for English is the original post without en-US.

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by dgellow » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #11

That was a very well written and interesting article. I really enjoyed it. Some good background for people telling GitHub to "just scale".

GitHub issues are mostly with PRs, CI, etc, not with git

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by AntonyGarand » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

ksk23 wrote: post #16

I don’t see a button to switch to English and the German text is a pain to read, comparable to Reddit auto translate..

The button is apparently in the footer: Another comment earlier has the english-only link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376960

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by bakies » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

ricardojoaoreis wrote: post #20

uracocksucker20 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Did you really create an account for this?

* spent tokens on this

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by rbtprograms » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

ricardojoaoreis wrote: post #20

uracocksucker20 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Did you really create an account for this?

its literally elon getting mad and making an account calling people cock suckers

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by killme2008 » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:46 PM UTC

It's time to look back on S3's 20-year history

https://blog.fnil.net/s3-at-twenty/

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by figmert » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

ricardojoaoreis wrote: post #20

uracocksucker20 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Did you really create an account for this?

But OP is the loser for leaving a comment.

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by throwitaway222 » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #15

brasic wrote: post #6

It’s hard to overstate the reputation of the author of this post. Everything good about GitHub’s internal systems seemed to have his name all over it (I realize that today this statement hits different than a few years ago). Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.

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tired of this

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by tonymet » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

how does git lock the repo on extreme concurrency? let's say 1000 devs writing to the same repository? eventually you'll have saturation of the resource locking everyone out.

When I've worked at big companies they had bespoke SCM that resolved this. But i'm curious about mid size teams that are big enough to overwhelm git but not so that they can rewrite it.

Re: Git at any scale

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Post by aeyes » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

tonymet wrote: post #29

how does git lock the repo on extreme concurrency? let's say 1000 devs writing to the same repository? eventually you'll have saturation of the resource locking everyone out. When I've worked at big companies they had bespoke SCM that resolved this. But i'm curious about mid size teams that are big enough to overwhelm git but not so that they can rewrite it.

If those 1000 devs write to different branches then you only take a light lock on the branch, usually that is not the problem.

The problems start when there is a lot of changes on one branch and usually the first band-aid is to put a commit queue in place. The few very big companies that need even more than that probably aren't going to put their code on a new git hosting provider tomorrow.