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The 1,000,000,000th repository in GitHub has been created! And it's something alright.
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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Perfect.
Needs 💩, should I open a PR?
Got renamed :(
Still shit on my machine.
Now I see shit again too. The unfortunate author may be torn on what to do.
Edit: https://github.com/AasishPokhrel/shit/issues/21
This issue mentions the name was changed.
I'm glad this project has been forked. I really want to see the direction other developers go with it
Forking shit, man.
Holy forking shirtballs
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Like figuring out factorio for the first time, it is something I wish I could live again.
I was gonna say that a billion repos is crazy, but I alone have 30 repositories and I don't even consider myself that serious
Take into account that in order to make PRs to a repository you don't have access to, you have to make a fork of the repo. Which means another repo.
Imagine you're a GitHub employee tasked with leaving a nice message for the 1 billionth repo. Seeing that counter tick towards that joyful moment, anticipation builds.
What would it be? The next Linux display manager? Something as impactful as Docker or Kubernetes? The early beginnings of a radical new OS?
Nope, it turns out to be shit. 💩
Even Linus seems to like this repo.
Sadly people love to fake commits from Linus, and it is extremely provably not from him.
https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else?tab=readme-ov-file
Shit.
How did this guy time it to be the 1 Billionth?
Best shit I've seen all week.