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> Yes, it's well known that big companies with big continuously integrated codebases don't manage the entire codebase with Git. It's slow, and splitting reposit
by pnathan 15y ago
> Yes, it's well known that big companies with big continuously integrated codebases don't manage the entire codebase with Git. It's slow, and splitting repositories means you can't have company-wide atomic commits. It's convenient to have a bunch of separate projects that share no state or code,
Can you expand on this? I would love to talk more about the "well known" part, I've never run across it before. I am a maintainer (tools guy actually) of a hg repo with about 120 subrepos, and the whole approach with subrepos is something that we're not thrilled about. Oh, and if you want to communicate via email, I'd be up for that too.