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> Another good example are monorepos. A decision maker sees a headline about Google and Facebook using monorepos and mandates his company to switch.

Unfortunately he didn't know that `git` does not scale well with the size of the repo and Google have built their custom repository system to tackle this.



Google used Perforce, which has a somewhat diferent model from git and scales a lot better. A monorepo is also the obvious way to use it, as you can’t (I don’t think?) branch between depots.




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