alt Hacker NewsI have a question about Monorepo. Do companies really expose their entire source code all in one repo for their devs to download ? I understand that people can always do bad things if they want but with monorepo, you are literally letting me download everything right ?
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This is probably different between startups and enterprises. My background is purely startups, and I can't imagine not having access to 100% of the code for the company I work.
While not talked about on HN as much, the big corps doing monorepo use something like Perforce which has "protects" tables allowing very granular access control
Hosting a developer environment remotely that you SSH into is very common. That’s how you would approach working with a monorepo that has any serious size to it.
I work at Google, and yes. We use a monorepo for absolutely everything you can think of. But good luck getting that code off a corp device without being caught!