Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that…
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that "rewrite history" such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.