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Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? by TekMol on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:30PM (#29016341)
Thanks for the infos!

What does "Dependencies are vendored and checked into the repo" mean?

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Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? by bananapub on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:34PM (#29016397)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...

ie copy software source into your own repository, ideally in such a way that you can keep it up to date (which is what shipit/copybara are for)

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Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? by dkasper on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:38PM (#29016449)
It means you literally commit the code from the dependency into your own repo. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...
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