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Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by 3JPLW »

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #2

Misleading title a little - the repos were disabled due to file system issues.

(Assuming the title hasn't been changed…) Removed from service isn't the same as disabled? To my mind they're synonymous. But I suppose the former may sound a little more inflammatory.

Interestingly, the initial email reported the cause to be a ToS violation.

Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by gkoberger »

Seems like did a merge that somehow broke GitHub, and it's back to normal now.

(Don't forget, mozilla-central has more commits than GitHub can even count (they call it "10k+"), hundreds of forks, a few dozen commits a day, etc.. so it's atypical)

Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by daleharvey »

This is a mirror that was being personally maintained, its been replaced by https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev, the maintainer sent an email saying the mirror was shutting down and people should move to the maintained version, this caused a bunch of traffic which caused github problems and they shut it down until they could fix it / bring it back up.

Dunno if its really news?

Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by talmand »

3JPLW wrote: post #3
JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #2

Misleading title a little - the repos were disabled due to file system issues.

(Assuming the title hasn't been changed…) Removed from service isn't the same as disabled? To my mind they're synonymous. But I suppose the former may sound a little more inflammatory. Interestingly, the initial email reported the cause to be a ToS violation.

Well, my train of thought is that disabled means it won't work for whatever period of time while removed means it won't work ever again because it's gone.

Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by seanmccann »

gkoberger wrote: post #4

Seems like did a merge that somehow broke GitHub, and it's back to normal now. (Don't forget, mozilla-central has more commits than GitHub can even count (they call it "10k+"), hundreds of forks, a few dozen commits a day, etc.. so it's atypical)

That's pretty standard for a private repo.

Re: Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub

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Post by saidajigumi »

seanmccann wrote: post #8
gkoberger wrote: post #4

Seems like did a merge that somehow broke GitHub, and it's back to normal now. (Don't forget, mozilla-central has more commits than GitHub can even count (they call it "10k+"), hundreds of forks, a few dozen commits a day, etc.. so it's atypical)

That's pretty standard for a private repo.

Only if you add a few zeroes. From the bug thread:

    This sounds like someone pushed the old shas into the new
    shas in some repo, which would be a ~1.5million commit push.
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