Time to tidy up your GitHub graveyard!
So, I logged into my GitHub account today and saw: 71 repositories! That is all the projects I started, forks I looked into, and then just abandoned. Let us be real. There is no way I really keep track of that many projects. Most of them are just remnants of things I was interested in for a short time.
I forked or created them, tinkered a bit, and then did nothing with them. They just lingered, collecting digital dust and taking up space on my GitHub profile.
I figured it was well past time to clean up this repository graveyard. My plan was simple but totally effective. Go through each repository one by one, see what is in there, and make a choice: keep, archive, or remove.
It is not just about making my profile look cleaner. It is also about saving resources. So, even though the space taken may not be a lot, fewer repositories could sort of accelerate things and ease GitHub’s servers somewhat. Right, right…?
Alright, maybe that is a stretch. But it still feels nice to do one’s part, however small.