We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned

Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by AlfeG on Thursday June 16, 2022 @01:56AM (#31762846)

We check-in some generated CSS files. That are generated by external theme cli. Just to be sure, that after version update we can track all changes in the generated CSS files.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by jokethrowaway on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:07AM (#31762902)

If they're generated you can just re-generate from source every time you need to track changes.

You're using git as a cache. You don't need to version a cache.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by gustavohenke on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:24AM (#31763364)

Regenerating certain things might be fast, but some might not be. Hundreds of engineers pushing code and having to wait for these to be regenerated both locally and on CI means that caching is quite cheap after all.

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