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Discussion on: Why might a project/company use a monorepo?

 
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Russell Parks

The point here is having good tooling for a use case. Git isn't the right tool for a monorepo if you want those other features (and most non-small development orgs will probably need). Sorry for all the shoring-up (most, probably). Every use case is different.
This also leads into writing good tools and defining good requirements/use cases but now I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Yves Junqueira

Git in this case acts just like a smart file storage. Microsoft and Facebook use git for very large repos and it works for them, for example.

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Fred Ross

Facebook uses Mercurial. Microsoft did a lot of work in the last year or two to make git work well with big repos.