Managing a monorepo in Git requires strategies that keep clone times fast, working directories focused, and commits attributable to specific packages — problems that become severe as the repository grows. As the creator of CoreUI with 25 years of open-source development experience, I manage a monorepo with multiple framework packages and rely on sparse checkout, shallow clones, and conventional commits to keep the workflow efficient. The key techniques are: sparse checkout to only fetch files you need, partial clone to avoid downloading all objects, and conventional commit prefixes to identify which package each commit affects. Git’s built-in tools handle all of this — no third-party tooling required for the Git layer itself.