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Automatically going for 'most commits ever' as well, I guess: https://github.com/smaslennikov/whattimeisitrightmeow/commit...

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So, it's immutable. Sounds like a blockchain right there!

clockchain? :p

Naturally the clockchain provides proof of work.

Work expands to fill all available time.

How much time will it take to reach the limit of GitHub repository size (~1GB)?

Eventually, they'll have a version of the file for each minute in the day. After that, the hash should ensure that no additional space is used to store the content. (I think, I don't know much about git internals.)

After that, if you assume 128 bytes per commit (timestamp, and maybe a hash or two saved?) then probably around 14 years.

Every commit will need a new tree object, containing the names, hashes, and chmod of each file/folder in the root (LICENSE, README.md, _config.yml, index.html, and bin).

I modified the script to commit as fast as possible (cycling the minutes between 1 and 60), and after 600 commits, doing "git gc --aggressive" before and after, the .git directory grows by around 460 bytes per commit.

nice!

Actually, we could just run `git commit --amend` every time and then force push. That brings troubles if I ever make other changes on another pooter though

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