I wouldn't do that way either, but they are not the only one doing that. Google and facebook have a similar approach: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Facebook-h

I wouldn't do that way either, but they are not the only one doing that. Google and facebook have a similar approach: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Facebook-have-so-much-of-their-source-code-in-1-giant-git-repo-did-they-not-think-that-this-approach-wont-scale https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Facebook-have-so-much-of-thei... https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand... They may know something we don't :)