The latest articles on DEV Community by Vishisht Choudhary (@vishisht_choudhary_a12d08). https://dev.to/vishisht_choudhary_a12d08 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1855494%2Fa56563e6-7b4a-4404-aa56-b0fa78d8fa1a.png https://dev.to/vishisht_choudhary_a12d08 en Vishisht Choudhary Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:14:43 +0000 https://dev.to/vishisht_choudhary_a12d08/i-had-claude-build-an-open-source-alternative-to-git-for-agent-scale-monorepos-3no6 https://dev.to/vishisht_choudhary_a12d08/i-had-claude-build-an-open-source-alternative-to-git-for-agent-scale-monorepos-3no6 <p>Anthropic recently <a href="https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2110047081414987957" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote about creating in-house source control</a>: they went from ~2,500 merged changes a day in May to 30,000+ in September, and git-era infrastructure built for humans became the bottleneck for agents.</p> <p>So I had Claude build an open-source take on it: <strong>Graft</strong>.</p> <h2> Benchmarks vs git on a 100k-file monorepo </h2> <ul> <li>Sparse checkout: <strong>12x faster</strong> </li> <li>Concurrent land throughput: <strong>82x</strong> </li> <li>grep: <strong>29x faster</strong>, no clone needed</li> <li>Storage: smaller than <code>git gc --aggressive</code> </li> </ul> <h2> Try it </h2> <p>Apache-2.0: <a href="https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/VishiATChoudhary/graft</a></p> <p>Original thread: <a href="https://x.com/BRWNSUGA1234/status/2110253492690669707" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/BRWNSUGA1234/status/2110253492690669707</a></p> <p>Feedback on the design and benchmarks is very welcome!</p> opensource git ai devtools