We had issues with ensuring that cross dependencies worked correctly when working with lots of independent repos, so we currently use a single repo.
The main issue we see now is all go dependency managers we’ve tried have problems. We currently use glide which seems to be the best of the bunch. So we’d also be interested to here what others use. On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 at 18:25, Shawn Milochik <shawn.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm also interested in hearing opinions on this. We do the latter (many > repos), and have over 250 of them. This causes some difficulties, > especially because Github's search *sucks*[1]. > > Onboarding: People need to *find out about *the repos they need, have > permission to access them, etc. > Reading code: If you're looking at a part of the code you haven't looked > at before, you may have stop to clone a repo. > Searching: Interested in which services import your package? Github's > search is *useless[1]*. grep/ack-grep/suchen are great, but you have to > have everything cloned. > Keeping up-to-date: Try having 250+ repos checked out locally and have the > latest version checked out. Requires an automated process all on its own. > > I like the idea of a monorepo. Keeping internal and vendored packages in > one place with a single command to test/build everything to prove you > haven't broken others' work. Other than the sheer size and the extra > coordination that has to go into preventing/resolving merge conflicts, are > there any big downsides? > > > [1] https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/ They delete/ignore > special characters, making it almost impossible to find anything across > repos (or even within them). Forget a regex search... WTF > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
