5 Tips for managing monorepos in GitLab

This post provides five practical tips for managing monorepos within GitLab: 1. Utilizing CODEOWNERS files to automate merge request approvals for specific code sections. 2. Employing Git LFS to store large binary files separately, reducing repository size and download times. 3. Leveraging partial clone operations to allow Git to function without a complete repository copy, further optimizing for large repositories. 4. Implementing parent-child pipelines in conjunction with `rules:changes` to run CI jobs only on modified files within a monorepo. 5. Using incremental backups to reduce downtime during repository backups.