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Comment by StilesCrisis

1 day ago

Could you even put all of google3 on local disk if it were allowed?!? You'd need quite a RAID array. I suspect it'd be almost impossible in practice.

There's no reason to pull the entire repo just to build one project. Do you pull all of GitHub to your disk?

  • From the user interface perspective though, it does essentially look like you've pulled all of google3 into your disk.

  • Because of high coupling dependencies between google3 projects, compiling just a single project usually pulls hundreds of thousands of different build targets.