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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by sausagefeet on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#31766262)
If you can checkout your monorepo as if it's multiple repos, but then also check it out as a monorepo when you want it, that seems to me more utility than splitting into multiple repos, then you can never check it out as a monorepo.
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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by maccard on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:44AM (#31766656)
In a world where submodules worked (side note: We use PlasticSCM which has xlinks [0] which are substantially better than submodules, but Plastic itself has it's own set of problems), you could have each "subrepo" as an independent repo, and then have a monorepo comprised entirely of submodules.

If submodules worked.

[0] https://www.plasticscm.com/documentation/xlinks/plastic-scm-...

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