I was making some large assumptions and reading through the lines that they have repos that track many products where particular folders / files have zero overl

I was making some large assumptions and reading through the lines that they have repos that track many products where particular folders / files have zero overlap with the whole. Or perhaps they have situations where they're working on configurations that can only be tested by deploying them and not by local tests. There's lots of reasonable reasons for only needing to be concerned with a portion of a repo. I'm giving the author the benefit of the doubt as the expert in their own job that they are in one of those reasonable situations.