> I’ve never understood the debate between mono and multi repos. With the right tooling, the line seems to vanish [...] Am I missing something? The space of de

> I’ve never understood the debate between mono and multi repos. With the right tooling, the line seems to vanish [...] Am I missing something? The space of development styles has high diversity. Tools are opinionated and constraining, with limited coverage of the space. Tools depending on tools exacerbates this. People underestimate the diversity. People have limited awareness of the characteristics of their own style that permit a particular tooling to work. People have even less awareness of how their tooling would degrade with an altered style. People similarly underestimate the cost and limitations of using additional tooling and workarounds to adapt tools to a different style. And so, the "debate". So git is perfect, doing everything the way you want. And git is a joke toy, badly solving a tiny fraction of what you need from a VCS. And who could think otherwise? The pair of OP blog posts repeatedly illustrate this dynamic. (In javascript/node land...) For solo personal projects, where extensive custom tooling can easily be a rathole, I generally use a mix of mono- and multirepos. And shift code between them based on tool ecosystem friction.