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by AimForTheBushes 2468 days ago
I really like the idea of monolithic repos but can see some downsides when there is more than one person working on a project. It would be cool if there was a simplified way to have an entire business operate under source control.
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themacguffinman 2468 days ago
> It would be cool if there was a simplified way to have an entire business operate under source control.

A lot of projects can and do apply CI tooling to achieve this. Every commit to a branch triggers a set of declarative deployment pipelines, simple. IIRC buzzword is "GitOps" if you want to find out more.

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tobib 2468 days ago
This interests me. Can you elaborate on what downsides you see? Even in a small team we're often working within the same repo at the same time without any issues.
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AimForTheBushes 2468 days ago
The glaring issue would be permissions ie who can see what. Pull requests could get muddied up but that probably wouldn't be too much of a problem to overcome. Some foundational git protocols would have to be adjusted, like .gitignore.

I think it's a great way for start up to manage the business but as more people get hired the organizational complexity might be too much to bear.

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