[masklinn]

And in fairness I can understand not considering someone might eventually be bundling a repository with tens of thousands of refs back in early 2009.

[nayak]

Even now, the contrast between repository sizes is wide. Most repos contain 1000s of references, which while not the best to run O(N^2) algorithm, is still okay. But as a Git forge, you also see a share of repositories which contain millions of references.