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bokwoon on April 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We lost 54k GitHub stars

> I assume that the cascading done on GitHub would be done on a FK constraint

GitHub doesn’t use foreign keys, the cascade delete must have been manually implemented.

https://hackernews.hn/item?id=21486494

ncmncm on April 15, 2022 | [–]

That it took a half hour to do all the pointless activity says something.

ric2b on April 17, 2022 | [–]

They use Rails, right? It's probably a cascade delete but done on the application, Rails makes that very easy.

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