Reducing our monorepo size to improve developer velocity
Dropbox cut itsmonorepofrom 87GB to 20GB. It ran a GitHub‑approved server‑sidegit repack, tuned bywindow/depth. Clone times dropped to under 15 minutes. Engineers traced growth to Git’s 16‑char path heuristic. That heuristic mispairedi18nfiles. They tested--path-walklocally, then ran phased replica .. read more











