[HN Gopher] Metahead - An enterprise-grade, Git-based metarepo
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       Metahead - An enterprise-grade, Git-based metarepo
        
       Author : grokx
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-01-10 21:27 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.metahead.dev)
        
       | digger495 wrote:
       | Or, you could just use a monorepo..
        
         | khazhoux wrote:
         | Is that your reasoned conclusion after reading what this team
         | actually built, and considering the deficiencies in today's
         | repos + monorepos which led them to invent this new approach?
         | 
         | Or did you just read the headline?
        
         | jauntywundrkind wrote:
         | We're pretty worried about trying to monorepoize our existing
         | code bases together.
         | 
         | How do we not break all the merge commits that link a project
         | specific PR? Complex filter-branch I guess. How do we make
         | GitHub able to actually help us navigate the past effectively?
         | 
         | It seems like we need some custom tooling to help us replay the
         | past step by step across multiple repos, doing some rewriting
         | as we go.
         | 
         | And what if it's not just your own repos one is managing? What
         | if you also are trying to manage external deps too?
         | 
         | I see much validity to wanting good git-of-gits. Also if anyone
         | has any suggestions for stitching together monorepos out of
         | existing repos, please _please_ comment!
        
         | oooyay wrote:
         | Git doesn't actually perform that well with monorepos of a
         | certain scale and linear history. From what I read they're
         | trying to give you a git interface to a monorepos that scales
         | well.
        
       | edgyquant wrote:
       | Not sure the implementation details but this                   $
       | git clone https://josh-project.dev/josh.git:/docs.git
       | 
       | Seems really neat to me
        
       | opentokix wrote:
       | What the f is "Enterprise grade"?
        
         | vosper wrote:
         | There's no published pricing, just "contact sales", if you want
         | SSO.
         | 
         | /s
        
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