> You get to go on another vacation while you wait for your monorepo to update.

If you care, you should read about how Google makes sure this doesn't happen.

> By putting our revision history in the cloud we provide engineers with complete access to all the source, and yet almost no time is spent checking out code.

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/06/build-in-cloud-a...

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/08/build-in-cloud-h...