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Facebook uses a monorepo, similar to the way Google does it. Dependencies are vendored and checked into the repo. Facebook has released a tool for migrating software between repos, which is much like Google's Copybara:

Facebook's fbshipit: https://github.com/facebook/fbshipit

Google's copybara: https://github.com/google/copybara

With these tools, you can make fairly sophisticated choices about how you do vendoring. You can make the internal version look just like the public version, in terms of commit history. And you can export internal commits to public commits, stripping out confidential information along the way (or integrations with internal systems and tooling).




Thanks for the infos!

What does "Dependencies are vendored and checked into the repo" mean?


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...

ie copy software source into your own repository, ideally in such a way that you can keep it up to date (which is what shipit/copybara are for)


It means you literally commit the code from the dependency into your own repo. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...




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