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We Put Half a Million files in One git Repository, Here's What We Learned - Canva Engineering Blog (www.canva.dev)
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[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago

I don't get why they have so many generated files checked in. Like changing that seems like a no brainer. If they can be generated then just gitignore them and call it a day.