I caused a similar issue while running edits on a Confluence Wiki instance as an intern. I was helping our publications department add some macro to every single page of the site, which I found out they were doing by hand! A bit shocked, I told them I could write something to automate that in a matter of minutes.
Sure enough, several minutes later all of the pages were updated. All 50 or so pages in each of the 15 spaces. And everyone who had ever touched one of those pages got an emailed for that page.
The nice thing about the Confluence API is that you can specify "minor" updates to prevent exactly this scenario from happening.
I guess since GitHub is built on the git foundation, adding some sort of "silent" flag might not be as easily possible, but certainly it's desirable.
Sure enough, several minutes later all of the pages were updated. All 50 or so pages in each of the 15 spaces. And everyone who had ever touched one of those pages got an emailed for that page.
The nice thing about the Confluence API is that you can specify "minor" updates to prevent exactly this scenario from happening.
I guess since GitHub is built on the git foundation, adding some sort of "silent" flag might not be as easily possible, but certainly it's desirable.