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Doesn't Google use Perforce though, which (last time I used it) forces a monorepo approach? git doesn't have equivalents to branchspecs and clientspecs.
by secondcoming 6y ago
Doesn't Google use Perforce though, which (last time I used it) forces a monorepo approach? git doesn't have equivalents to branchspecs and clientspecs.
- thinxer 6y agoIt is because Google wants a monorepo, then Google choose to use Perforce (and later Piper). It is not that Google uses Perforce and thus are limited to a monorepo. The core value behind monorepo (and monorepo-like approaches) explained in the book is that dependency management is harder than version control.