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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by Too on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:03AM (#17608325)
In the later you can also forget project A exist. git log works in subdirectories out of the box and if you didn't touch any files in project A a rebase will be trivial without any merge conflicts. Branching is also free (unless you are still in the SVN stoneage that requires a copy of each file) so it doesn't matter if you branch the whole monorepo or just a single project.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by wcoenen on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:36AM (#17608749)
> unless you are still in the SVN stoneage that requires a copy of each file

Maybe you are thinking of CVS? In SVN, creating branches has always been cheap in both space and time.

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