It's because the 'problem' it solves is a corner case that's rarely encountered. I love their absurd examples of repos that take 12 hours to download. How many people have that problem, really?
All they did is create a caching layer.
All they did is create a caching layer.
How many people have that problem, really?
If you deal with graphics, audio assets, etc, the binary-blob type of data, the case is central.
Lacking support for large binary blobs is, like, THE #1 reason that an engineer might have to use an alternative.
All you need is several hundred engineers and your monorepo becomes unwieldy for git to handle.