Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 Practice Question
Your organization keeps a 15-GB monorepo in Azure Repos Git that has grown over eight years. New developers on Windows report that initial clone and subsequent fetch operations take an unacceptably long time. You must recommend a solution that reduces onboarding time, leaves the commit history intact, and automatically performs background maintenance such as repack and garbage collection while remaining fully compatible with standard Git commands. What should you recommend?
Move all historical content to Git Large File Storage (LFS) and keep only pointers in the repository.
Have developers install and register the repository with Scalar to enable partial cloning and automated maintenance.
Configure sparse checkout patterns so that each developer pulls only the folders they need.
Migrate the repository to Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to avoid Git scalability limits.
Scalar accelerates work with very large repositories by creating a partial clone that downloads only the data a developer actually touches and by scheduling background maintenance to keep the local clone efficient. It runs as a thin layer over standard Git, so existing commands continue to work and the full history is preserved. Sparse checkout alone still requires the full object database to be downloaded, migrating to TFVC replaces Git entirely, and moving content to LFS targets binary files but does not solve the fundamental performance issues of cloning and fetching a multi-gigabyte history.
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