Didn't Linus mention this in his talk at Google, Mercurial offers similar speeds, but Perforce would be the option for large binary files. I personally haven't

Didn't Linus mention this in his talk at Google, Mercurial offers similar speeds, but Perforce would be the option for large binary files. I personally haven't come across any need to use anything except shallow clones in large repos. Most of the time, you want to keep those other topic branches regardless. They've linked to their previous most regarding submodule in the post[1], but it's worth re-mentioning that if you need to use submodule, you should almost always use subtree. [1]: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree/ http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submo...