[shaftway]

I would have loved to see some discussion of mono- versus poly-repos and steps towards improving this situation.

I prefer mono-repos personally, but they have the downside of being very busy and bulky because of that. Doing a partial clone by folder is very clunky at best, and there is no per-folder notion of permissions, which makes this a total non-starter for my team. The result is that we have thousands of repos and tooling that helps you check them all out into the correct place to make builds across them work. And inevitably they get out of sync and the builds break.

Git submodules seem like a solid approach, allowing you to cobble a bunch of poly-repos into something that kind of looks like a mono-repo, but the tooling support around it just makes it super painful, and you still don't have the ability to have an atomic commit across the repos. And people *hate* submodules.

I don't know the solution, but I wish this was on the radar of people who know git better than I. For now I'll just bumble through the repos I need to touch.