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 necovek on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:34AM (#31774772)

They are code files managed by a different set of people (translators), not generated artifacts (as they explain elsewhere in this discussion).

If we are being pedantic, git was not designed to host multiple projects in a single repo (otherwise, git would have been a subdirectory in the kernel tree). But tools are made without knowing how they'll be used, and that's ok, so I wouldn't stress on what the purpose for monorepo was, but how it's used and what value it brings.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by prmoustache on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:51AM (#31780016)

>They are code files managed by a different set of people (translators), not generated artifacts (as they explain elsewhere in this discussion

Translations do not look like code to me. Rather human generated artifacts.

What I understand is there is a strong tie/match needed between versions of these translations files and the code itself, so I believe this is where having all in the same repo would make sense, having the translators update those file when code has been modified...

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