alt Hacker NewsEvery commit. Every diff between 2 different commits. Every diff with different query parameters. Git blame for each line of each commit.
Imagine a task to enumerate every possible read-only command you could make against a Git repo, and then imagine a farm of scrapers running exactly one of them per IP address.
Ugh.
Ugh Ugh Ugh ... and endless ughs, when all they needed was "git clone" to get the whole thing and spend as much time and energy as they wanted analyzing it.