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> terabytes of source code You sure that exists? Git repositories that contain terabytes of source code? I could imagine a repo that is terabytes but has bi

• CBLT 1y ago
  Google's monorepo is in fact terabytes with no binaries. It does stretch the definition of source code though - a lot of that is configuration files (at worst, text protos) which are automatically generated.
• jeffbee 1y ago
  git could never, but piper at google is way over that figure. Way, way over.
  • phyrex 1y ago
    Microsoft has actually done a lot of work to scale got to large repos
    • p_l 1y ago
      It's why there's special Microsoft Git VFS (a lot like VFS at google that is also referenced in the talk). It was made to make working on Windows source code possible with Git.
• packetslave 1y ago
  Google had 86TB of sourcecode data in Piper way back in 2016.
  • ffsm8 1y ago
    Dang, that's mind boggling - especially if I keep in mind that a book series like lord of the rings is mere kilobytes if saved as plain text. Having 86 TB of plain text/source code - I can't fathom the scale, honestly Are you absolutely sure there aren't binaries in there (honestly asking, the scale is just insane from my perspective - even the largest book compilation like Anna's isn't approaching that number - if you strip out images ... And that's pretty much all books in circulation - with multiple versions per title)
    • phyrex 1y ago
      Each snapshot of the repo isn't that big, but all the snapshots together, plus all the commit metadata and such, are
• phyrex 1y ago
  Very sure, i work in one