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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by brutusborn on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:35AM (#31763062)
That bit surprised me also. I don't have much experience with companies of this size so I have no real idea; how many people would you expect to work on source control at a company of this size? I had a look at Linkedin, they have 4,345 employees.
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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by kanu666 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:39AM (#31764808)
Usually it is considered good proportion to start with to be 10% to work on a Developer Productivity and it should increase to 15% as company grow. But regarding source control it really depends on the approach: if you are on polyrepo - then 0 is enough. If you decide to write you own source control system like Facebook or Google, then maybe couple of hundred engineers full time until the project is finished :)
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