Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository

• Date read - 2020-01-11

• Paper - Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository

Notes

• Advantages of monorepos

  • Forced consistency is viewed as a benefit of monorepos even though this is related to the lack of flexibility in monorepos compared to multi-repos

  • Ability to search for code is important to both code quality and velocity

• Advantages of multi-repos

  • Flexibility of tooling

  • Stable versioning

  • Diamond dependencies

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