[samkellett]

wait hang on...

> At Google, we have found, with some investment, the monolithic model of source management can scale successfully to a codebase with more than one billion files, 35 million commits, and thousands of users around the globe.

so each commit adds on average over 28 new files?

[icebraining]

There are probably commits that add hundreds or thousands of auto-generated files, raising the average.

Also, it depends on how much you squash - my latest 10 commits turned into just one when merging to master.