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Re:The largest Git repo by je42 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:57PM (#14412047)
mono repo only works if you have tooling. google's and facebook's tools are not opensource. also, ms tooling is windows only.

so for most of us the only reasonable path is to split into multiple repositories.

it is also easier to create tools that deal with many repositories.

than it is to create a tool that virtualizes a single large repo.

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Re:The largest Git repo by ethomson on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:52PM (#14412468)
Microsoft's tooling is Windows only _today_. GVFS is open source _and_ we are actively hiring filesystem hackers for Linux/macOS.
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Re:The largest Git repo by riffraff on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:34PM (#14412323)
but google's and facebook's repos are also orders of magnitude larger than what most people deal with, normal tools might work just fine in most cases.
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