[hinkley]

One of the tenets of XP that survived (or should I say, is amplified?) into CI/CD is the idea that you should build up callouses for painful activities instead of trying to avoid them.

In that context, if a thing is tough but has value, you make a path to it. First make the tools consistent, and then make people consistently use the tools. The more predictable the system becomes (predictability is the opposite of magic!), the more you insist on people using it. Pushback is a kind of feedback, and you have to address at least some of the concerns of people who refuse ('meet me halfway here').

Someday it will shock no-one to say that Git is not the best of all possible version control tools. If this is difficult, it may not be the people. Maybe it's time to start thinking about the next version control system?

SVN had some pretty decent facilities for monorepos. Some people will tell you that Git traded some of these features for others, but looking through the information architecture documentation for git, I don't think I can agree. Some of that information is there, it's just maybe not packaged for consumption.