Repo types and their nuances
In this section, we will learn exactly what a polyrepo and a monorepo are.
As most of you will already know by now, repo is short for repository and refers to storage for all the files for your project. It also keeps track of all the changes to those files. This means, at any time, we can easily go and see what lines of code were changed, by whom, and when. In most cases, we use Git for version control. Some teams may use other systems, such as Mercurial or some other distributed version control system.
There are two strategies that teams most commonly use for managing repos. They are commonly known as monorepos and polyrepos. There are other patterns, such as Git submodules or Git subtrees, but these are beyond the scope of this chapter. We will focus on monorepos and polyrepos.
Monorepos
As the name suggests, mono means single and so the source code is managed in a single Git repo. This means that all team members work on a common single repository...
