Using git with large mono repos

Working with Large Git repositories

June 16, 2022 · Tejaswi D Prakash

The following approaches can be used to work with large git repositories.

Limit large files from being downloaded.

using ‘filter’ So files such as large binaries, zip files won’t be downloaded.
```
#size in MB
git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:limit=<size> your_git_repo.com
```

Limit git to a set of directories

This can be done using git ‘sparse checkout’

#inialize empty git repo
mkdir your_git_dir; cd your_git_dir
git init
# set which sub-directory contents you want
git sparse-checkout set --cone input-directory
#add remote and do a pull
git remote add origin my_git_repo.com

git pull origin master

Limit the number of commits that will be cloned

git with the ‘–depth’ option can be used to limit the history to ’n’ recent commits
```
git clone --depth=10 your_git_repo.com
```