Stop Switching Repos: The Hidden Efficiency Ceiling in Multi-Repo Debugging — Broken by One Feature

You’re probably doing something inefficient every day: switching repositories. If you work on mid-to-large scale systems, you’re almost certainly dealing with a multi-repo architecture: One repo for the frontend One for the gateway One for core services One for the design system / component library Several more for downstream dependencies The problem is: bugs don’t stay confined to a single repository. You see an anomaly in Repo A. The root cause lives in Repo B. To verify an implementation detail, you have to: Switch projects Wait for indexing Locate the entry point Switch back Re-explain all prior context Every time you switch repositories, you lose context. Logs, trace IDs, parameter differences, feature branch background — you have to restate everything. This is not a developer capability issue. It’s a tooling issue. The Real Friction in Multi-Repo Collaboration Let’s look at a few common scenarios. Scenario 1: API anomaly, but you're only in the frontend repo An API response is mi