Re:Monorepos: Please don’t
by bborud on Thursday January 03, 2019 @10:08AM
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That's not really that different in a monorepo since you often need reviews from the same number of people anyway.
I once had to wait for 9 months to get a complex change through in a monorepo setting because of all the people involved, the number of stuff it touched and the fact that everything was constantly in flux so I spent half my time tracking changes. I'm not saying it would have been faster in a polyrepo. I'm saying that complex changes are complex regardless of how the source is organized.
I do however think that polyrepos forces you to be more disciplined and that it is easier to slip up in a polyrepo and turn a blind eye to tighter couplings.
I once had to wait for 9 months to get a complex change through in a monorepo setting because of all the people involved, the number of stuff it touched and the fact that everything was constantly in flux so I spent half my time tracking changes. I'm not saying it would have been faster in a polyrepo. I'm saying that complex changes are complex regardless of how the source is organized.
I do however think that polyrepos forces you to be more disciplined and that it is easier to slip up in a polyrepo and turn a blind eye to tighter couplings.