josh-project/josh

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Josh (Just One Single History) is a Git-at-scale platform providing fast, reversible Git history transformation so any sub-view of a repository can be presented as an independent repo. It ships a CLI for local partial projections and josh-proxy, a Git HTTP/SSH proxy with on-the-fly history transformation, shared caching, GraphQL APIs, and a cross-forge merge queue.

Use cases

• split a monorepo subfolder into an independent repo with full history
• manage a monorepo without forcing everyone to clone everything
• control access to parts of a codebase for contractors or open source contributors
• check whether a subproject has already been built without checking out the repo
• run a merge queue across multiple forges
• reduce CI rebuild scope by scoping builds to changed sub-views
• synchronize related repositories through a metarepo

When to choose

• your monorepo has grown too large for contributors to clone and build efficiently
• you need per-team or per-project repo views with preserved history and write-back
• you need fine-grained access control over parts of a Git repository
• you want a merge queue that spans multiple code hosts
• you want to erase the monorepo vs polyrepo distinction with dynamic repo boundaries

When to avoid

• you have small repos with no scaling, access control, or CI scope problems
• you need a fully managed SaaS with no self-hosting or proxy infrastructure
• your team relies on tooling that assumes plain unfiltered Git remotes and cannot work through a proxy
• you only need simple submodules or sparse checkout rather than history-preserving projections

Facets

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version-control proxy developer-tools cli api-framework version-control developer-tools windows self-hosted cli git monorepo git-virtualization repo-filtering merge-queue access-control rust scm devops automation linux macos docker

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