Not to be a jerk, but 'hundreds of devs and dozens of MR per day' is not 'huge repos'. Certain functionality only becomes relevant at scale, and what is easy on a repo worth hundreds of megabytes doesn't work anymore once you have terabytes of source code to deal with.
Google's monorepo is in fact terabytes with no binaries. It does stretch the definition of source code though - a lot of that is configuration files (at worst, text protos) which are automatically generated.
Dang, that's mind boggling - especially if I keep in mind that a book series like lord of the rings is mere kilobytes if saved as plain text.
Having 86 TB of plain text/source code - I can't fathom the scale, honestly
Are you absolutely sure there aren't binaries in there (honestly asking, the scale is just insane from my perspective - even the largest book compilation like Anna's isn't approaching that number - if you strip out images ... And that's pretty much all books in circulation - with multiple versions per title)
