Coffee With Developers • Nov 6, 2024

How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%

Jonathan Creamer

Microsoft's monorepo inexplicably ballooned to 170GB due to a legacy 2006 Git flaw. Discover how a small team fixed the core algorithm to shrink clone sizes by 94%.

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