[lupire]

There's no reason to pull the entire repo just to build one project. Do you pull all of GitHub to your disk?

[wmedrano]

From the user interface perspective though, it does essentially look like you've pulled all of google3 into your disk.

[mcculley]

But is it a local disk? The post above says that one uses Chrome Remote Desktop.

[compiler-guy]

It’s not local storage, but a file system that makes it look like local storage. Even on machines with chrome Remote Desktop it is still stored remotely. So remote to the remote.

[summerlight]

Because of high coupling dependencies between google3 projects, compiling just a single project usually pulls hundreds of thousands of different build targets.