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Re:Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub by rmasters on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:03PM (#26481354)
If you are willing to adapt to a different structure and workflow, you can filter the scope of git down dramatically with sparse checkouts (as @WorldMaker also mentioned).

https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-s...

Re:Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub by chgibb on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:45PM (#26481884)
Sparse-checkouts are amazing. I wrote some small tools that use dependency information in Flutter packages to drive a sparse-checkout. We use it at $dayjob now.