How we shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size by 94%
We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
github.blogThe new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.