Is Mono repo good?

Monorepos are a good fit for large teams with multiple projects. The benefits aren’t necessarily apparent with a handful of small projects. Monorepos work best at a scale where there would be perceptible inefficiency with a multi-repo approach.

What is Mono repo and multi-repo?

The monorepo approach entails storing the code for different libraries or projects — and even all code from a company — in a single repository. And the multi-repo system divides the code into units, such as libraries or services, and keeps their code hosted in independent repositories.

How many repositories should you have?

As u/kreiger said, use one repository per project. If you have libraries and want to use them in multiple of your projects, I would suggest to make one repository per library and include them as submodules. One repo per project.

What is a mono repo and why would you use it?

Definitions vary, but we define a monorepo as follows: The repository contains more than one logical project (e.g. an iOS client and a web-application) These projects are most likely unrelated, loosely connected or can be connected by other means (e.g via dependency management tools)

Are mono repos bad?

Monorepo is still a bad idea. And that’s precisely the problem you’ll be facing with monorepo. Instead of depending on convenient build, CI, CD and VCS tools, you’ll have to adopt tooling very few companies in the industry use. That tooling will have almost zero documentation.

Should each Microservice have its own repository?

Clear ownership: Having separate repository for a particular service is a definite microservice way of doing things because the team that owns that service is clearly responsible for independently develop and deploy the full stack of that microservice.

When should I use different repositories?

When to Use Multiple Git Repositories You should use multiple Git repositories if your codebase is too large to maintain in a single Git repository. Git can’t scale to handle 10s of thousands of users or 100s of petabytes of data in one repository.

How many Git repositories are there?

It is commonly used to host open-source projects. As of November 2021, GitHub reports having over 73 million developers and more than 200 million repositories (including at least 28 million public repositories).

How many Git repositories can I have?

The number of public or private repo is now unlimited. Theoretically, everyone can has an unlimited number of public and private repositories even as part of a free plan.

What is a mono repository?

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A monorepo (mono repository) is a single repository that stores all of your code and assets for every project. Using a monorepo is important for many reasons. It creates a single source of truth. It makes it easier to share code.

Is Google a mono repo?

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Airbnb, and Twitter all employ very large monorepos with varying strategies to scale build systems and version control software with a large volume of code and daily changes.