• EdTheMessenger@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Not necessarily. Huge additions without matching deletions often happen during restructurings like vendorizing dependencies, importing external packages, generating bindings, or migrating private repos into a monorepo. In these cases new code canbbe introduced to repository and there will be no corresponding deletions in commit history.

    I’ve did similar restructurings myself, eg. Making automatically generated resources static