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[Gunslingor]

I'm building a product/company that will need a android app, an ios app, a spring+kotlin backend and an angular cli frontend. So far trying to do all these in a single IntelliJ window has proven tough, so I sort of decided to run them as separate projects even though they are related to the same overall product. I sort of wanted to have them all in a single git repo, but I'm thinking now about separating them their too.... but then I might use kotlin native/multiplatform for the ios/android stuff so suspect a single git is better for this... trying to lay this out. Should I do 4 repos or one? How would I or do I want to treat these as one intelliJ project?

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[robstoll]

do you release components individually?

[Gunslingor]

I probably will be....

[Gunslingor]

yeah, I see it very possible to releasing only 1/4 modules/components

[robstoll]

does a bug usually concern multiple components or just one

[Casey Brooks]

Personally, I’d go with separate repos if you plan on versioning/releasing each piece separately. I put things in the same repo (in different Gradle subprojects) if they are strongly connected and need to always be released together.

Usually, this means that I keep multi-module libraries in the same repo, and keep apps in different repos

[Gunslingor]

Likely and hopefully just one... but very possibly all... like if I had a bug that requires me to add a first name to a DB, I'd probably add the field to the DB, modify the rest so it can be gathered by users and then would probably need to update the webserver frontend.

[Gunslingor]

I think you are all correct...

[Gunslingor]

when I started this project I was hoping to do everything with kotlin in one project... that dream is dieing with each accomplishment though,lol

[Gunslingor]

I wish git allowed grouping repos into folders... oh well, I got an organization... good enough for now.

[Gunslingor]

thanks guys.

[Casey Brooks]

I wish git allowed grouping repos into folders

It does, with submodules https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

[Casey Brooks]

And Gradle can take advantage of that too, with composite builds https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/composite_builds.html

[Gunslingor]

I've read quite a bit about submodules and trees... seems a little used feature, problematic per lots of people I've asked... also have to ask myself why no git gui's offer this.

[Gunslingor]

gradle is new to me and kts gradle has been kicking my butt.

[Casey Brooks]

GitKraken actually does support submodules, and works quite nicely. Its the only one that makes submodules feel in any way natural or useful. I’ve got a couple projects that I use as submodules, and once you get the hang of it it works really well. https://www.gitkraken.com/git-client

[Josh Feinberg]

i actually have been working on a kotlin multiplatform project all in a single repo

[Josh Feinberg]

its worked fine. CI would be a nightmare but i haven't been worried about that

[Gunslingor]

THANKYOU!!! I will definitely check that out. I suspect all 4 components will/should use a different build system... angular CLI front end wont really use gradle I guess it uses itself, the backend spring boot kotlin will use gradle, then I suspect the android app will use gradle and the IOS will use some apple crap, lol.

[Leo Na]

Lots of comments 😄
I would do mono-repo (not monolithic, not git module)

[fangzhzh]

how about https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/