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A comment on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016). Parent comment

Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by bunderbunder on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:26AM (#17609984)
In those situations, why not go ahead and keep the code up-to-date and consistent, and simply not deploy when you don't need to?
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by adrianN on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:44AM (#17615108)
Because that costs money now that could be spent on something that actually produces a profit.
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