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Google's handling of their source code makes me wanna work there. I don't like distributed version control systems with hundreds of repositories spread out. It

by haglin 8y ago

Google's handling of their source code makes me wanna work there. I don't like distributed version control systems with hundreds of repositories spread out. It makes management more complicated. I understand this is a minority view, but that is my experience. It was easier to work in a single Perforce repository than hundreds of Git or Mercurial repos.

djur 8y ago
Distributed vs. centralized VCS has very little directly to do with many vs. monolithic repos. After all, git was originally developed for a project with a large monolithic repo. Distributed VCS and many small repos got popular around the same time, but that's partly coincidental (microservice architectures getting popular, npm community preferring extremely small libraries) and partly because of GitHub making it very cheap in money/time to have many git repos.