The Joys Of Monorepo

The Joys Of Monorepo
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Welcome to the infinite loop of monorepo hell. You touch one shared utility file, and suddenly 47 different teams need to review your PR. Days pass. Tumbleweeds roll by. Finally someone comments "please rebase" because 200 commits have landed since you opened it.

So you rebase. Now you've got merge conflicts in files you didn't even know existed. You spend hours resolving them, carefully preserving everyone's changes. Push it up, feeling accomplished. But wait—the PR can't be merged anymore because someone else just pushed conflicting changes while you were rebasing.

Back to "fix merge conflict." Then back to waiting for reviews. Then "please rebase" again. The cycle continues until you question every life decision that led you to this moment. Your one-line bug fix has now touched 15 files and spans 3 weeks of calendar time.

Fun fact: Google's monorepo contains over 2 billion lines of code. Imagine the rebase conflicts.

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