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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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