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by mulcahey
1802 days ago
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Monorepos are pretty common nowadays, arguably popularized by Google https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/ That said (1) “you are not Google” as the saying goes (2) Google built their VCS from scratch in house for scale. However it’s not tops hard to do this with just git and some rules/patterns for organization. |
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It's more complicated than that. Initially, there was Perforce. Then, Google grew client-side tooling on top of that ("g4", rather than "p4"). Then, someone grew client-side Git on top of that (for reasons, good or bad). And at some point, the Perforce backend simply stopped scaling, and a new backend was written (named "piper", but not the "piper" most non-Googlers think of). And once that was in place, assorted more "make it scale" tooling could be built on top of that (and, at that point, I stopped using the client-side Git, because CitC was simply That Good).
So, "from scratch" is a bit of a stretch.