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		je42 on May 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The largest Git repo mono repo only works if you have tooling. google's and facebook's tools are not opensource. also, ms tooling is windows only. so for most of us the only reasonable path is to split into multiple repositories. it is also easier to create tools that deal with many repositories. than it is to create a tool that virtualizes a single large repo.

ethomson on May 24, 2017 | [–]

Microsoft's tooling is Windows only _today_. GVFS is open source _and_ we are actively hiring filesystem hackers for Linux/macOS.

riffraff on May 24, 2017 | [–]

but google's and facebook's repos are also orders of magnitude larger than what most people deal with, normal tools might work just fine in most cases.

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