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0 pointsforrestthewoods7mo ago0 comments

Nonsense. Be specific. Google, Meta, and every large game studio on the planet use large centralized monorepos. It's not only fine, it's great!

If you use Git it's not possible to "have everything" because Git is not capable of storing everything that needs to be version controlled. Most devs their version control is actually a combination of Git, docker images, and lord knows how many other data sources. It's a miserable nightmare. Good luck and God speed to anyone who tries to build something from just a few years ago, never mind a 10+ year old project!

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17186274407mo ago

I'm not talking about what needs to be in Git and what not, I mean for git functionality that analyzes the history (git blame), the data needs to be traversible, i.e. available locally, fetching it over the wire will introduce massive latency. You claimed it doesn't need to be.

> All the features you think are associated with the D in DVCS are perfectly accessible to a more centralized tool.

forrestthewoodsOP7mo ago

Git Blame sucks and is far far far far far far worse than Perforce Timelapse View.

You moved the goal posts a little bit. You are correct that if you want to work in a cave with no internet then you do need every bit of data to perform at least some operation. That’s not what the D in DVCS means though.

17186274407mo ago

That's exactly what the D means: All the repo data is on every machine, the repo is complete in itself and no repo is any different than the other.

For me connecting to the Internet is very much a choice. Doesn't mean I wouldn't have access if I didn't want to, but why would I need it most of the time?

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0 pointsforrestthewoods7mo ago0 comments

Nonsense. Be specific. Google, Meta, and every large game studio on the planet use large centralized monorepos. It's not only fine, it's great!

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17186274407mo ago

> All the features you think are associated with the D in DVCS are perfectly accessible to a more centralized tool.

forrestthewoodsOP7mo ago

Git Blame sucks and is far far far far far far worse than Perforce Timelapse View.

17186274407mo ago

That's exactly what the D means: All the repo data is on every machine, the repo is complete in itself and no repo is any different than the other.

For me connecting to the Internet is very much a choice. Doesn't mean I wouldn't have access if I didn't want to, but why would I need it most of the time?

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