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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by testUser69 on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:05AM (#13560212)
I think it's more naive to believe that large companies always make the right decisions. We see Microsoft make mistake after mistake (look at windows 8, windows vista). The only time they fix their mistakes is when they're made public.

So there is no reason to fix their mistake of a code base.

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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by ska on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:09PM (#13561295)
It would be naive to assume large companies always make the right decisions, which is why few people do that.

However, when you see that a large company is doing something in a way that you thing is silly or strange, the logical thing to ask first is "what do they understand that I don't understand?". It won't always be the case, of course, but most of the time it will turn out you were missing something.

Assuming off the bat that they are idiots and you know a better way is staggeringly naive.

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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by oz on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:50PM (#13562677)
>the logical thing to ask first is "what do they understand that I don't understand?".

There's even a name for this: "Going from D to C - from disparagement to curiosity". I think I first heard it from @patio11.

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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by patio11 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @01:22AM (#13565918)
Doesn't sound like the way I would phrase the thought, so I checked: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/17/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-... <-- Ramit said it here, although I suspect it might be older.
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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by ska on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:28PM (#13563013)
It isn't the snappiest label, but it does capture the idea well.
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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by CJefferson on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:29AM (#13560411)
But, it seems all large companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) are using a mono-repo, and no-one is publicly admitting to using many small repos.

If no company is using many small repos for truly massive projects, then it's hard to argue it would be a good idea. Could everyone who has looked at this problem make the wrong choice?

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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by Sacho on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:54AM (#13561158)
This is also mirrored by many not-so-big javascript projects, i.e. see the adoption of https://github.com/lerna/lerna
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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by keithlfrost on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:04AM (#13560722)
Note that Amazon is not on your list. They did not adopt the mono-repo approach. Their tools have their own advantages and disadvantages, to be sure, but mono-repo is not the only way.
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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by CJefferson on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:54PM (#13561675)
I hadn't heard about Amazon. That's good to know.
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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by krallja on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:54PM (#13565560)
Read Steve Yegge's Google vs Amazon rant: it's amazing.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by aanm1988 on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:20PM (#13561396)
> no-one is publicly admitting to using many small repos.

Amazon. They built an entire system around managing versions so that they can make it work.

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