GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure to support agentic software development workloads, the company said in an engineering blog post1. With developers and AI agents working concurrently in repositories receiving millions of commits per day, the platform's busiest repository saw roughly a billion requests in August 2026, according to the post. GitHub described the gap between typical repositories and the highest-volume ones as wider than most expect, noting that these workloads demand a different Git architecture.
GitHub Rebuilds Git Infrastructure for Agent-Scale Development
GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure to handle agentic software development, with its busiest repository seeing roughly a billion requests in…