Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single RepositoryBy Rachel Potvin, Josh Levenberg Communications of the ACM, July 2016, Vol. 59 No. 7, Pages 78-87 10.1145/2854146 Comments (3) Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system. This approach has served Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of Google's software assets continues to be stored in a single, share
