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> If your organization puts all its code, and all assets that go along with that code into a single repository; you’ve got yourself a monorepo.

I'm not sure I agree with this. I suppose in the most technical sense, sure, but it's not really true.

We have a single repo with a bunch of microservices in it. Builds/tests are localized to a single microservice though. The beauty of git is that two people can work on two parts of the repo pretty much independently. So while technically there is only one repo, I feel like calling it a monorepo would just confuse people.




The author draws a monorepo vs monolith distinction that articulates it well. I've only every understood monorepo to be literally about how source is managed.




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