@stolee my partner just sent me this (because he sends me interesting git things), and you get a little callout :) neat to see your work in the wild! https://www.jonathancreamer.com/how-we-shrunk-our-git-repo-size-by-94-percent/
How we shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size by 94%

We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.

Jonathan Creamer
@nasamuffin Jonathan was the person I would message at random intervals whenever I found something…
“Why does the window size have such a big effect?”
“Why has no one touched this code since 2006?”
“Hey look this size decrease is way more than expected, I better run fsck to make sure it isn’t a bug”