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Scaling Git at OpenAI

What HN thinks

Git survived the Linux kernel; it may not survive agents committing their every passing thought.

The commit volume is AI slop
Many doubt the exploding code volume reflects value, blaming verbose agent output, endless fix commits and duplication, and calling the growth a liability.
It's a monorepo problem, not git
Several argue the scaling pain comes from cramming everything into one repo, though others note multi-repo setups just trade for orchestration problems.
Nice engineering, wave of copycat posts
Others praise the post's detail and reuse of git's packfile-uri, while noting it is one of many similar scaling posts from Cursor, GitHub, Anthropic and GitLab.

Consensus: Most agree the engineering is competent but are skeptical about why so much code is being produced and whether it delivers anything users notice.

Recommended in the comments

Jujutsu (tool): Mentioned as supported by a commenter's new code forge as a git alternative.
git-dedup ↗ (tool): Suggested as a way to avoid repeated large clone downloads.
Juju ↗ (service): Its builder pitched it while asking for push throughput benchmarks.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 10 days ago.

Points: 240
Comments: 162
Best rank: #4
Posted: 2026-11-02 by makeramen
Category: DevOps & infra

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