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#git

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A 22 GB .git Folder, "wrong index v1 file size", and a Commit That Never Happened
My .git folder was 22.7 GB and every git command failed with "wrong index v1 file size". The cause was a year-old git add. Here are the checks and the six commands that fixed it.
November 10, 2026
AI Agents Built a Browser MMO in One Day: Auditing All 115 Commits
Claude agents made 115 commits on a browser MMO in one day, and 38 were game code. What ran at midnight, what broke in the next three days, how to audit yours.
November 10, 2026
Moving 32 Repos from Windows to WSL2: What Broke and the Fixes
Moving 32 JS/TS repos from Windows into WSL2: node_modules per OS, inotify limits, git dubious ownership, CRLF, ports, and the one-copy rule that ended it.
November 10, 2026