Big repos work in Git today if you are able to play the sparse checkout dance. There are definitely more improvements to be made. - Protocol for more efficient

Big repos work in Git today if you are able to play the sparse checkout dance. There are definitely more improvements to be made. - Protocol for more efficiently widening sparse checkouts. - Virtual filesystem or other solution for automatically widening sparse checkouts to greatly improve the UX. - Ideally changing sparse checkouts from a repo state to just some form of lazy loading. Otherwise as you touch more files your performance will slowly degrade.