🗃️ The Big Repo Project

An experiment in pushing GitHub's limits, one massive file at a time.

What Is This?

This repository exists for one beautifully absurd purpose: to become one of the largest repositories on GitHub by raw file size. It's part experiment, part stress test, and part digital art project exploring the boundaries of version control at scale.

Current Stats

📊 Repository Size: ~4GB+ and growing
📁 Total Files: Growing daily
🎯 Ultimate Goal: Push the absolute limits of what GitHub can handle
⚡ Clone Time: Plan for a coffee break (or three)

The Experiment

This project explores several interesting questions:

• How large can a single GitHub repository actually get?
• What happens to Git performance with massive binary files?
• How does GitHub's infrastructure handle truly enormous repos?
• Can we create a collaborative digital monument to data excess?

What's Inside

The repository is organized with a simple structure to accommodate massive files:

├── username/
│   ├── images/
│   │   ├── image.png
│   │   └── ...(another image.png)
│   └── audio/
│       └── audio.wav
│       └── ...(another audio.wav)
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
└── CONTRIBUTING.md

The /username directory contains contributions from various sources:

• Large datasets and CSV files
• High-resolution image collections
• Uncompressed audio files
• Generated binary data
• Public domain archives
• Scientific data collections
• And much more...

Want to Contribute?

Warning

This repository is LARGE. Cloning will take significant time and bandwidth.

If you want to add your own massive files to this experiment, check out CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed instructions.

Quick contribution guidelines:

• Larger files are better (50MB+ preferred)
• Must be legal and appropriate content
• You must have rights to distribute the files
• Uncompressed formats preferred

Performance Notes

⚠️ Before You Clone:

• Full clone is ~4GB+ and growing
• Consider using git clone --depth 1 for a shallow clone
• Cloning may take 10-30+ minutes depending on your connection
• Make sure you have sufficient disk space

Why This Matters

Beyond the absurdity, this project serves as:

• A stress test for Git and GitHub's infrastructure
• An educational tool for understanding repository bloat
• A collaborative experiment in digital maximalism
• A monument to data in our information age

Legal Notes

• All contributors are responsible for having proper rights to their uploaded content
• This project respects GitHub's Terms of Service
• No copyrighted material without proper permissions
• No illegal, offensive, or malicious content

Contributing Recognition

Contributors who add substantial file sizes will be recognized in future updates to this README. Every byte counts in this digital collaboration!

Technical Details

• No Git LFS: Intentionally avoiding Large File Storage to bloat the core repo
• File Limit: GitHub's 100MB per file limit applies (we work within it)
• Repository Limit: We're testing GitHub's theoretical upper bounds
• Performance: Expect slower Git operations as size increases

Project Philosophy

"In a world of minimalism and optimization, sometimes you need a project dedicated to beautiful, purposeful excess."

This isn't about efficiency or best practices. It's about exploration, collaboration, and seeing what's possible when you abandon constraints and embrace digital maximalism.

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Ready to contribute to something magnificently unnecessary? Check out CONTRIBUTING.md and help me make GitHub history!

⭐ Star this repo if you appreciate digital absurdism at scale!