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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 Nihilartikel on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:12AM (#17616789)
If I recall, in Google's build system, a dependency in the source tree can be referenced at a commit ID, so you can actually have a dependency on an earlier version of artifacts in source control.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by justicezyx on Saturday July 28, 2018 @05:06PM (#17635051)
No, that's not true since at least 2013 (the year I joined Google).
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