We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's What We Learned (2022)

Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by Borg3 on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:44PM (#37296916)

Hmm, I've read this one: "These .xlf files are generated and contain translated strings for each locale."

So why to store them under VCS at first place? I think they are doing it wrong.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by urbandw311er on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:26PM (#37314953)

I think that’s a pretty sharp observation.

Analogous to something like node_modules in web dev, for example.

The files could be gitignored and then generated both on local machines but also on the CI/build system.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by haizzz on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:27AM (#37318037)

Author here, the phrase "generated" was the wrong choice of word here. These translations are manually translated by humans in another systems and consolidated into these .xlf files so they're dependent on what the original strings are in code at a specific commit. They cannot be generated on the fly

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by Borg3 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:04AM (#37319323)

Ahh, ok, then indeed bad wording. Fix up the orginal article :)

Im always strict what is going into VCS. Anything that is generated or preprocessed should not belong there.

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