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by kccqzy 715 days ago
It's not moving the goalpost because you didn't understand where the goalpost was in the first place.

Lots of tiny repos like GitHub? Easy sharding problem. They don't even need Paxos. One large monorepo? Everything changes. Let us not forget that GitHub cannot even handle the Homebrew repo be cloned and updated by Mac users and asked them to switch to a CDN.