> There is a reason why all the big tech companies operate this way. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, all have one giant repository with their entire product.
Cool, but that doesn't explain why Office and Windows need to share the same repo. Ditto for gmail and chrome os. Ditto for fb messenger and whatever face recognition algorithm they use.
I see how my post could have led to that interpretation. That’s not what I meant. There are certainly many many repos in use across Microsoft, for all sorts of different projects. Office doesn’t share the same repo as Windows. And neither does the toolchain (compiler/linker/etc.); only the binaries are checked into the Windows repo. Those are truly separate products, which need to work across different versions of Windows.
Cool, but that doesn't explain why Office and Windows need to share the same repo. Ditto for gmail and chrome os. Ditto for fb messenger and whatever face recognition algorithm they use.