Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.

The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
In 2019, to meet GitHub’s growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
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In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services.
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
In July, GitHub experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.
In June, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.