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Git at Scale

Note

Draft placeholder — outline notes only; prose not yet written.

Points this chapter’s introduction needs to make:

  • Why big repositories and big teams strain Git: history size, object count, working-tree size, ref count

  • A map of the scaling toolbox and how the pieces relate: shallow clones, partial clones, sparse checkout, Scalar, background maintenance, large-file storage, and monorepo practices

  • Where the on-disk format details live (Ch 10, Git Internals) versus the day-to-day operations covered here

Shallow Clones

Note

Draft placeholder — outline notes only; prose not yet written.

Points this section needs to cover:

  • git clone --depth, --shallow-since, --shallow-exclude

  • Deepening and unshallowing: git fetch --deepen, --unshallow

  • --no-tags to avoid tag bloat

  • CI patterns: fast single-revision checkouts

  • Limitations: no full history for log/blame/bisect, server cost of shallow negotiation — why partial clone is often the better tool

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