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How many people work on the repository tooling at Google? I'm asking because i wouldn't know how to setup a mono repository at my 50 people Startup even if we

• coderdude 9y ago
  (Not to mention the invaluable nature of this information to anyone working in that sector.)
• izacus 9y ago
  For a 50 people startup, a Git repository will be usually enough. At my previous company we managed to do the monorepo approach easily with similar amount of people and GitHub.
• rifung 9y ago
  > I'm asking because i wouldn't know how to setup a mono repository at my 50 people Startup even if we deemed this to be necessary. Sorry if this is a really dumb question. If you only have 50 people I'm assuming your codebase isn't that big, so why can't you just make a repo, make a folder for each of your existing repos, and put the code for those existing repos into the new repo? I imagine there's a way to do it so that your history remains intact as well.
  • aurelianito 9y ago
    Yes, there is. Move the entire content of each repo to a directory and then force-merge them all in a single repo. I did this a few years ago with 4 small mercurials repositories that belonged together.
  • fla 9y ago
    You can do that easly with a subtree