ANanticensor·Apr 27, 2024
now it's the turn for https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesStill looking forward to https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows .
In Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source CodeThe week after: Ubuntu LTS ditched, Ubuntu gets forced updates; https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows returns 200 OK, containing Windows 10 source code :)
In IBM acquires Red HatI've been thinking of it as more of making it on-demand — it doesn't sound like you lose the underlying distributed nature (e.g. from the description on https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g... it sounds like 'git push ssh://github.com/microsoft/windows.git' would work, although it might take longer to run than it does for you to be fired) but managed clients can choose to operate in a mode where they download everything on-demand rather than immediately.
That seems like a reasonable compromise for a workload which Git is otherwise completely unable to handle.
In Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, LinuxStep in the right direction. I'm still waiting for
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/windows.git
to happen
In Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler