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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by w_t_payne on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:33AM (#17607265)
We have about 400 repos in a team of about 20 developers. We do have extensive tooling to help coordinate all of these, but configuration management is still by far the biggest engineering challenge that we face.

I don't recall having such issues when I was working with Subversion and Perforce.

On the other hand, not everything was rosy in the 'good old days': MS Source Safe was (by far) the worst VCS experience that I have ever had.

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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by mehh on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:41AM (#17607524)
Sounds excessive and beyond the norms of what most people would encounter in not having a mono repo i.e. the opposite extreme.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by w_t_payne on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:31AM (#17608715)
Yeah. It is a bit excessive, and it is a PITA to manage.
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