Comment by wmedrano

When I joined in 2016, it CitC would make it look (and still does) like you had the entire monorepo on your local filesystem on your machine.

Git5 would copy some directories but builds would still fallback to files from the monorepo if you didn't track them. It was convenient for me since I could just grep and do fuzzy matching from my editor. Now I have to do some extra work to avoid grepping the entire monorepo. LLMs sometimes still try to grep the entire repo lol.

Now, you could use a perforace, mercurial, or jj interface and it works fine.