[przmk]

I have already briefly looked at git-subtree. From what I can gather, it doesn't help much with my use-case. You still need to manually pull from each subtree and push branches individually to each project. The end result is still 4-5 merge requests to handle on Gitlab for a single new feature.

I might have missed something.

[whstl]

I believe dustingetz is suggesting making a monorepo for the code itself, but copying the subdirectories of the main repo into subrepos to solve your CI issues.

This means that developers have a monorepo for day to day work, but the CI/CD issues are isolated in their own separate repos, and can be handled separately.

Dunno if that's 100% of what they mean but it seems to be a solution to what you describe in another message ("our CI/CD pipeline doesn't allow us to do so and it is not handled by our team anyway")