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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by robert-brown on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:14PM (#17606242)
Yes, that's what you do. And you commit the change when all the tests pass.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by flukus on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:15PM (#17606452)
And that's insane, people don't scale like that. It's harder enough keeping your head around one large project let alone every project a company has that you might have to jump into at any point.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by ebikelaw on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:57PM (#17606618)
You're arguing for the nonexistence of something that obviously exists. There are tens of thousands of engineers at Google working in this manner on one of the largest codebases ever assembled.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by joshuamorton on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @10:25PM (#17606494)
What exactly makes automated refactoring difficult?
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