Git also has a built-in command (maintenance) to optimize a repository’s data, speeding up commands and reducing disk space. This isn’t enabled by default, so we register it with a schedule for daily and hourly routines.

On a new clone of the Canva monorepo, git status takes 10 seconds on average while git fetch can take anywhere from 15 seconds to minutes due to the number of changes merged by engineers.

Over the last 10 years, the code base has grown from a few thousand lines to just under 60 million lines of code in 2022. Every week, hundreds of engineers work across half a million files generating close to a million lines of change (including generated files), tens of thousands of commits, and merging thousands of pull requests.