> > 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.
> 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.