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Re:Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of... by mceachen on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:52AM (#22996388)
Submodules don't allow for atomic commits that span repos, though. Atomic cross-project commits are the most compelling selling feature for monorepos IMHO.

(A common case for this is changing a function's API, and fixing all downstream consumers, in one tidy, holistic PR).

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Re:Monorepoize – Bash scripts for creating a monorepo out of... by JoshTriplett on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:44PM (#22998062)
> Submodules don't allow for atomic commits that span repos, though.

They can, but there's little tooling support to help you do so.

You can make a new commit in one repo, and then in one atomic commit, you can pull that new commit into a parent repo's submodule and fix the users calling into that submodule.

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