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 abrookewood on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:35AM (#31763423)

I don't think I've ever seen "because your mono-repo is too big for git" used as an argument for micro-services, but maybe at this point it's valid.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by charcircuit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:13AM (#31763621)

You can put microservices in a monorepo. You just put them in their own folder.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by abrookewood on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:18AM (#31763641)

Of course, but can you split a monolith across multiple repos?

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by scarmig on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:01PM (#31769076)

Sure. It'd drastically complicate the build process and CI for little benefit compared to other approaches (e.g. sparse checkout), but you could even in principle create a repo for each code directory and stitch them all together.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by charcircuit on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:48AM (#31777306)

>It'd drastically complicate the build process and CI

This is a part of most monorepos. I figure having only a single build artifact is rare.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by isaacremuant on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:13AM (#31763955)

Yes. With git submodules.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by jaypeedevlin on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:56AM (#31763840)

Canva use microservices FWIW

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