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I hit ⚡️ 15k ⚡️ commits through Open Source contributions and it broke Github.

Sylwia Vargas on October 15, 2020

✨ humble beginnings Since I made a career change, I knew that contributing to Open Source would be one of my free-time priorities as I d...
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Rishika •

What an inspiring way to break github ! Congratulations !

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Sylwia Vargas •

Ha, thank you ✨

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Brad •

Wow thats amazing!

Did you ever get any word from github, or figure out exactly why the amount of contributions prevented you from loading that page? 🤔 Seems like something github should fix :P

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Sylwia Vargas •

Yeah — I provide an email screenshot from the Github support I received. It seemed the number of commits to different repos was causing the timeout error ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Mohamed Amine EL ATTABI •

Hi Sylwia
I saw bigger numbers than that, for exemple : github.com/nul-dev he have 79k+ contribution
I wonder why it happen to you hmmm

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Sylwia Vargas •

Hm when I initially tweeted about it, I got many responses about that I must have hacked the github contribution graph. Maybe that's what the person did ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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tombohub •

WOW! How do you program so fast?!

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Sylwia Vargas •

I don't!! Not at all!! It's just that the curriculum I was contributing to had cohorts fork the repos from the main one, which meant that each change would count for 30-90 commits 😭

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Sylwia Vargas •

I mean, it's still a lot of commits but it was quarantine 😂😭

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tombohub • • Edited

oh boy, that makes me little bit relieved, thank you :)

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Matthias von Bargen •

haha thats a good way of breaking github! I wonder does squashing merge requests make a difference to this or do all the commits still exist on the graph then?

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Sylwia Vargas •

Yeah it is a funny and frustrating situation! So the way that one curriculum is set up means that one commit will become 30-90 commits within an hour because of all the forks and they are all commits to separate repos 😕

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Brayden W ⚡️ •

Very impressive.

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Sylwia Vargas •

Thank you, Brayden! I actually just read your post about your portfolio (and I loved it).

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Brayden W ⚡️ •

Thanks. Feel free to use it for anything you might need it for :D

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ohad24 •

Congrats 🎉

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Sylwia Vargas • • Edited

thank you!

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Henrique Alexandre •

Wow, quite impressive!

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Sylwia Vargas •

Thank you, Henrique!

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Sylwia Vargas •

Thank you! I really like your quiz app!

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Sylwia Vargas •

Thank you!

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