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Ever work on a AAA game?

Even a large AAA game should be able to be cloned to a machine. You don't need to clone history, just use --depth to specify the number of commits you want.

Obviously a 20 year git repo with all commits is going to be massive, but you don't need that locally.

Also, it seems like it would be reasonable for a AAA game to version control assets separately from code.

That probably mostly assets, no?

My last project was about 400Gb, and probably 2M lines of C++. The days size is mostly assets but there’s still a lot of code.

>2M lines of C++

Even with a git history, wouldn't that only be maybe a few hundred MB?

Dunno, we use perforce. The 499GB is assets.

Probably, but you want to version control assets too.

People usually mention git-lfs at this point, but that is always annoying to use in practice. There is also shallow-clones and sparse-checkouts, but these only mitigate the problem as there is no way around cloning at least one revision completely with git.

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