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> > Reason #3: Small repositories are better than large ones

> This is just a tooling issue. You can still separate projects by directories, and if your tools allow you to just check out a subdirectory, ...

Even a forest of repos has tooling issues: your build, code review, and code indexing tools will need to support the forest, and that's a lot of work. It's probably comparable to the work needed to make a monorepo work.

The alternative to the monorepo isn't all rosy.




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