I had no idea this issue had been identified. While I find this tool very useful, the project is seeming rather questionable to me now.

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      You think they’d call up devs who left them just to ask if they happen to know about a random file?

      I mean, that’s what op said happened. Literally with the verbiage of “file we found” and not “file you committed”

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          Right, I based it on an estimate on the size of the company and how many devs they’ve had. But if a 7MB file doubled their build size and nobody noticed for 5 years, it likely wasn’t code reviewed or committed and rather just added somewhere, It’d be my guess that it’s a pretty small team, and if they’re willing to call anyone at this point anyway as they only have a few devs, and not just remove the file, they’re probably unsure on if it serves any sort of point, which usually would be clear in a commit or PR