Ask HN: Branching strategies for monorepos, what is your approach? Having stumbled upon Git Flow and the wonders of monorepos, I do wonder how to best implement a Git Flow like branching strategy for the monorepo. Branching fundamentally seems to fit better for polyrepos or repos with a single project. Have you come up with a branching strategy for monorepos and if so, what is it? |
Is there a problem with this? Seems too obvious to even call it a strategy.
For continuous deployment the circumstance is a little different since you may not want continuously deploy every app if there are changes that don't affect all apps.
For example, supposing a monorepo that contains source for three separate apps A, B, C. If a branch contains changes for app A only, when merged, you may not want to redeploy all apps, but only affected apps. In this case you may want to organize a conditional deployment model instead of a continuous model. If you CICD system is tied to branches, and branch events, you may need to organize a separate release branch modeling along side the preexisting integration model.