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Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #16

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I think google might be the only people to do monorepo (and even they don't - for example, Android and Chrome are different repos), but they have built massive internal tooling to support this. For everyone else, once you get past a certain size, it's much much easier to do multi-repo than monorepo.

Facebook also has a monorepo.

Are instagram and whatsapp in the same repo as facebook proper?

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #24

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As does Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...

Mozilla too.

No, it doesn't. Firefox is a monorepo (of course, it's just one product). All their other products (bugzilla, rust, all the web properties) have different repos. Check out their other repos: https://github.com/mozilla

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #24

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Facebook also has a monorepo.

As does Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...

I think that repo is just for Windows, not for everything Microsoft develops.

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #28

This is a sad end. So many companies are showing how to do Open Source right, and make a profit (be they Citus with postgres, GitLab, JetBrains, RedHat, Automattic with Wordpress, etc). Reddit followed the Wordpress/GitLab model – code is open source, some minor plugins are closed and only available on the hosted solution – for many years, but now stopped that. This is a sad day. Just like Google killed the open sour…

Open source today is far from where we thought it'd be in the 90s. I did a post on this a while back:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-...

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #24

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As does Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...

I think that repo is just for Windows, not for everything Microsoft develops.

"just for Windows" probably still makes it one of the biggest repos in the world. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's actually the biggest.

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #24

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As does Microsoft: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...

I think that repo is just for Windows, not for everything Microsoft develops.

Correct. The project I work on at MS is 3 repos all by itself.

Re: An update on the state of the Reddit repositories

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think google might be the only people to do monorepo (and even they don't - for example, Android and Chrome are different repos), but they have built massive internal tooling to support this. For everyone else, once you get past a certain size, it's much much easier to do multi-repo than monorepo.

Facebook also has a monorepo.

There's actually a few different ones.
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