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by vruiz 2620 days ago
Does anybody know how these companies development environments look like? I know about Piper at Google but how do the rest manage? Does every single engineer have the entire monorepo in their machines?
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Shish2k 2619 days ago
At facebook, a virtual filesystem (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden) + change monitor (https://facebook.github.io/watchman/) = source control operations run in O(files I have modified) instead of O(size of repository) time
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vruiz 2619 days ago
Very interesting, thanks!
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YawningAngel 2620 days ago
Most places I know of use Git Virtual File System or equivalents.
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vruiz 2620 days ago
It is my understanding that VFSForGit only works on Windows.
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filoleg 2619 days ago
The github repo has instructions for running it on Mac and says that the stable Mac version is under active development.
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