There are no true monorepo companies

Re:There are no true monorepo companies by tomasreimers on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:15PM (#36975675)

To me, Monorepos are about a separation of concerns (or lack thereof). Something is a monorepo if/only if there is greater than one concern in the repo. (For example mobile + web, backend + frontend, service + server).

When I was at FB, I remember someone used the term polylith to describe our multiple monorepo situation... I suspect that's probably a pretty common situation for people that "have a monorepo"

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Re:There are no true monorepo companies by 1letterunixname on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:41PM (#36978818)

Hey fellow Xeta.

The number of secondary repos was/is declining by merging them into poly-monorepos. For example, opsfiles was/is moving to fbcode.

With good D/VCS tools that can checkout code efficiently, review processes, and CICD testing, there's no real reason to avoid monorepos.

Btw, the FB "hg" was semi-opensourced as sapling. https://github.com/facebook/sapling

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