Code Repos and Yak Shaving on The Real Ramblings

Code Repositories and Yak Shaving Part Two

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +1200

In Part One of this series, I discussed what a monorepo is, defined contextual repos, and covered a review of a couple articles which attempted to illustrate the benefits of a monorepo. In this part, I’m going to go a bit deeper into some of the assertions I made, and some claims often made “in defense of” monorepos.

Code Repositories and Yak Shaving

Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +1200

There is a wave of argument growing among how to organize software repositories ; the god-repo (commonly known as a monorepo) and focused repositories. By and large there is no one best way. Rather it is a question of which yaks you want to shave. This is a meager attempt to explore them without a general recommendation.