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		debacle on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPU... So the packages themselves aren't part of the repository?

kmm on March 9, 2016 [–]

No, only references to the repositories themselves are. The total Specs repo is only 300 megabyte, which comes to about 18 kilobyte per package on average.

It's still absolutely ludicrous to use git for it, or worse, to bother github with it.

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