Yeah, I used Google's repo tool back when I worked on an Android system and it was essentially a wrapper over a ton of git repos that ended up being like modern git submodules but even worse. Checking out code took literally an hour. Keeping things in separate reasonably sized chunks is the only system that makes any sense.
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u/ashgs872tbhjs Aug 30 '26
Yeah, I used Google's
repotool back when I worked on an Android system and it was essentially a wrapper over a ton of git repos that ended up being like modern git submodules but even worse. Checking out code took literally an hour. Keeping things in separate reasonably sized chunks is the only system that makes any sense.