[phodge]

> Because of git's shortcomings polyrepo is a near necessity

I'm intrigued by this claim. I've come to the opposite conclusion - that monorepo is near necessity with git because there's no tools for branching/rebasing multiple repos at once.

[thayne]

After using both I can say both have problems. Polyrepos lack tools for working with multiple repos simultaneously, and require more attention to versioning. Monorepos have longer histories, and the large number of objects can hurt performance.

Which one you should use depends on which downsides are less impactful for your use case.

[bb88]

I think he's talking about large files there, which is an issue in GIT btw.

I would use it for storing and syncing libraries of large images for my photography, if it were feasible.