polyrepo

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ repo.

Noun

polyrepo (plural polyrepos)

1. (software engineering) A software project in which different components are located in separate code repositories which can be versioned individually (as opposed to a monorepo in which all the code exists within a single repository).
   • 2024 May 8, u/Haspe, “Mono repo or not?”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/golang, archived from the original on 22 July 2024:

     In situation where there is 2 components, polyrepos are sufficient. In situation where there is 50 components, monorepos shine. And the switch is somewhere in between.

Related terms

• monorepo
• multirepo
• subrepo