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Note that Facebook is trying to scale a single large repository, not an army of slightly smaller ones. It's a very different problem, and has to be solved in a
by durin42 13y ago
Note that Facebook is trying to scale a single large repository, not an army of slightly smaller ones. It's a very different problem, and has to be solved in a very different way.
- daleharvey 13y agoI have seen presentations mentioning google development done as a single monolothic repository http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Development-at-Google http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Development-at-Google
- tonfa 13y agoThis monolithic repo isn't a git repo.
- spiffytech 13y agoCorrect. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020859
- Timmmmbob 13y agoAndroid is only split up into smaller repositories because git can't handle having it all in one.