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by vertex-four 3425 days ago
> I don't have time to read the whole thing, but it sounds like it works by breaking down a "super repo" into small "sub repos".

They're explicitly not doing that. They have a massive, monolithic repo, and then tooling for interacting with that monolithic repo without having to grab the whole thing. They are not using Git. You just read the section titled "Alternatives".