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Dec 30, 2025 · Fundamentals

Why Git Is Failing Modern Scale: Performance Limits and Emerging Replacements

The article examines how Git’s original design struggles with today’s massive monorepos, slow merge models, binary assets, and developer‑unfriendly workflows, presents benchmark data, cites Google and GitHub research, and explores emerging version‑control alternatives that aim to solve these systemic performance and usability problems.