Whenever I read about the efforts of Microsoft in and around Git, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it is an amazing contribution to OSS. It really conque

Whenever I read about the efforts of Microsoft in and around Git, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it is an amazing contribution to OSS. It really conquers complex architectural problems with better algorithms and does not only polish some administrative frontend nonsense. Their blog posts are always excellent outreach documentation. On the other hand, I feel that Microsoft is abusing git with their bloat repositories, and now they even add bloat to the git ecosystem (if there even is one). Git was initially written for the Linux kernel. The Linux git repo is huge, but apparently Windows is so much bigger then Linux that it requires a 15GB repository. I have never seen 15GB of ASCII text (code). Everybody knows that Git is not for binary blobs (images, etc). Feels like they do something wrong, but I cannot tell. Also, using a monorepo might be the wrong choice in the beginning, but since they put so much engineering effort in solve these problems at the root, there seems to be some decision why they need git exactly in this very way.