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<@U054MQUPL>: There are some perforce fans, some mercurial fans, and some monorepo haters that will use any and every excuse to suggest that we spliter into a thousand small repos.

any kind of slowness is going to be perceived as bad; then the focus would just shift there

git is really terrible in this regard, it's bad at management

we had to deploy a custom solution for that here that I wrote

"What's it do?" "Remote code execution." "Oh, is that all?"

kwlzn: sorry, i dunno where you're working

i mean, any conversation about git performance has a lot of caveats, and there are a lot of potential things that could work in certain situations

i'd be happy to talk about specifics, this is all i've been doing for a year an a half

but i can tell you flat out there's no magic bullet

<@U07PPQ012>, we’d love to have you over at Square sometime to give a presentation.  In some sense the messiness would be a down side, but hearing what bottlenecks you’ve encountered an how you got past them would be heartening to some.

sure, i mean, how many people are there at square?

I don’t think I can say exactly, but let’s say but the number of engineers is more than 100 and less than 1000.

Do we check the `pants` code base using `pylint`?

<@U053H6LQS>: if you're on the low end of that range, then you have some flexibility

<@U09S0QZM4>: don’t believe that’s actively enforced, no.

Well we are somewhere in there but our plan is to aggressively grow in the next 12 months.

yeah, if you're gonna do that, i'd _seriously_ suggest looking into what's out there _now_

I wouldn't grow aggressively unless your tooling supports it

A lot of Twitter's current problems were self-imposed due to massive growth

I mean, you can grow if you want, but expect extremely diminishing returns