[ashishb]

Uber had 8000 repos at one point with 2000 engineers - https://highscalability.com/lessons-learned-from-scaling-ube...

[Gigachad]

Probably most of them are forks of some public repo with some patch applied and half of those are probably not even used internally anymore.

[ashishb]

Afaik, they eventually cleaned it up.

And it was each team owning multiple internal repos of their own deployments/libraries, and not, primarily, clones of public repos.