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vruiz
7y ago
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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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YawningAngel
7y ago
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Most places I know of use Git Virtual File System or equivalents.
vruiz
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7y ago
It is my understanding that VFSForGit only works on Windows.
filoleg
7y ago
The github repo has instructions for running it on Mac and says that the stable Mac version is under active development.
Shish2k
7y ago
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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
vruiz
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7y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
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