The point of being hard to use is valid. But I would focus more on being hard to learn instead. Once you know it you forgot about it 99% of times, for other 1%

The point of being hard to use is valid. But I would focus more on being hard to learn instead. Once you know it you forgot about it 99% of times, for other 1% it's good to have this "git expert" on a team ;) For other points there seems to be ongoing process [0][1] and I think in one year or more having huge monorepos with binary files should not be such a big problem or require additional tools. It should be build in core git. Permissions seems to be partially "solved" by git hosting sites like Github. But I agree it's a pity we don't have anything build in core git for this :( [0] https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-size-with-sparse-checkout/ https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-s... [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone https://git-scm.com/docs/partial-clone