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So every company ever? I love these comments like hindsight is not 20/20 and it would have been so simple for you to have made all of the right engineering decisions as an armchair CTO. Give me a break. Git repos get out of control, bad decisions are made, this is an interesting solution and write up. So over the whole “just make perfect decisions all the time and you would never need X comments”. Guess what? Everybody makes mistakes

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This isn't just a matter of hindsight. They don't even have that, as demonstrated by the fact they're putting ever more work into their workaround instead of fixing the glaringly obvious problem: it's a monorepo with half a million files growing ever bigger.

Certainly I wouldn't have decided to put all that junk into a single git repo from the start, since I'm not an idiot. But, even if I did, or I inherited something like that, I would fix it, not double down as they're doing.

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