alt Hacker NewsThere's no reason to pull the entire repo just to build one project. Do you pull all of GitHub to your disk?
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wmedrano • yesterday at 6:53 PM
From the user interface perspective though, it does essentially look like you've pulled all of google3 into your disk.
Because of high coupling dependencies between google3 projects, compiling just a single project usually pulls hundreds of thousands of different build targets.