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A bit off topic, but does this mean that each of 25k Google developers has a copy of the entire codebase on their laptops? Or is there a way to cherrypick parts
by ahmedfromtunis 5y ago
A bit off topic, but does this mean that each of 25k Google developers has a copy of the entire codebase on their laptops? Or is there a way to cherrypick parts of it?
- fennecfoxen 5y agoIn Perforce you can do that. Indeed, often you have to, as you will have permissions to see only certain paths. One can assume g4 is similar. Paths are also how one does tags and branches on old school tools like Subversion (just copy your branches/master to tags/releaseX and then never change it)
- jeffbee 5y agoNo, because the repo was 90TB as of 2015. Also because that company’s policy forbids any source code on mobile devices, or at least did when I was there. Note that perforce is not like git. One does not generally clone the whole repo. You create client views that contain the files you want to edit. Everything else stays on the server.