Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
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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.
Scaling monorepo maintenance
At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing repositories. Each day, the largest repositories we host become even…
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
Every day, GitHub serves the needs of over 56M developers, working on over 200M code repositories. All but a tiny fraction of those repositories are served with amazing performance, for…
Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone
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…
Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout
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.
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