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0 pointsvruiz6y ago0 comments

Does anybody know how these companies development environments look like? I know about Piper at Google but how do the rest manage? Does every single engineer have the entire monorepo in their machines?

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Shish2k6y ago

At facebook, a virtual filesystem (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden) + change monitor (https://facebook.github.io/watchman/) = source control operations run in O(files I have modified) instead of O(size of repository) time

vruizOP6y ago

Very interesting, thanks!

YawningAngel6y ago

Most places I know of use Git Virtual File System or equivalents.

vruizOP6y ago

It is my understanding that VFSForGit only works on Windows.

filoleg6y ago

The github repo has instructions for running it on Mac and says that the stable Mac version is under active development.

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