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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by cousin_it on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:04PM (#11996548)
Your complaints are oddly git specific. Why use git with a monorepo? Perforce is simpler and works better.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by slrz on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:24PM (#11997241)
Yes, Perforce can handle huge repos with gigantic binary files much better than git. Sadly, it sucks at pretty much everything else.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by jonhohle on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:22PM (#11997210)
Perforce works well for a monorepo at certain scale. It also falls over with too much stuff, and when it falls (due to capacity or otherwise) over your entire company is dead in the water until it's resolved.
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