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		jokethrowaway on June 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository,... If they're generated you can just re-generate from source every time you need to track changes. You're using git as a cache. You don't need to version a cache.

gustavohenke on June 16, 2022 [–]

Regenerating certain things might be fast, but some might not be. Hundreds of engineers pushing code and having to wait for these to be regenerated both locally and on CI means that caching is quite cheap after all.

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