To me, Piper is a monolithic version control system which is geared towards good engineering practices.
As far as I know there are only two such systems in use today and the other one is very dated and older than a lot of things out there.
When people say they have worked in a monolithic repo, then they typically mean a 1 repo under one of the open source version control systems, but none of these actually do or support what is needed when working with a monolithic repo AND modern/good engineering practices.
For that specialised VCS is required and there is very few examples of that, none of which is in open source software.
Git probably could be made to do this kind of stuff, but it would require some extensions to the DAG as well as extend on it's already verbose command line set. But I think it is doable.
The question is who can do it? Most are probably under some strict NDAs.
To me, Piper is a monolithic version control system which is geared towards good engineering practices.
As far as I know there are only two such systems in use today and the other one is very dated and older than a lot of things out there.
When people say they have worked in a monolithic repo, then they typically mean a 1 repo under one of the open source version control systems, but none of these actually do or support what is needed when working with a monolithic repo AND modern/good engineering practices.
For that specialised VCS is required and there is very few examples of that, none of which is in open source software.
Git probably could be made to do this kind of stuff, but it would require some extensions to the DAG as well as extend on it's already verbose command line set. But I think it is doable.
The question is who can do it? Most are probably under some strict NDAs.