Since we started development on IDEA, every nightly build of each IntelliJ-based IDE was tagged in the intellij-community repository on GitHub. After 18 years of development and having 10 products, we now have more than 68,000 tags in the repository! This many tags causes performance issues with git, in particular, every git fetch is very slow.
To improve the experience of working with the intellij-community repository, both for us and for our contributors, we have removed these tags. We're currently deciding on whether they are needed on GitHub and what our tagging strategy will be going f