Somewhat recently I caused a failed kernel update by accident:

Ran system update in tmux session (local session on desktop). But problem was that tmux itself got also updated, which crashed the tmux session and as a result crashed the kernel update. Only realized it upon the following reboot (which no longer worked).

Your described solution re “live ISO, chroot, run system update once more, reboot” was also what got me out of that situation. So certainly something worth learning for “general troubleshooting” purposes re system updates.

Have you ever learned about the following in VIM:

• H, M, L, 22H, …,: vertical cursor placement
• zt, z0, zb: vertical scroll positioning
• 0, $, gm, gM: horizontal cursor placement
• w, e, b: word based cursor movement

Simply holding j or k at times also works, even more so with a decently high key repeat rate.

Of course there’s a lot more: https://vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html

The trick is to only learn a couple new movement mappings at a time and use them during one’s workflow for a while, up until they feel ingrained. Then repeat, iteratively building up one’s movement skills in VIM.

One can say many things about VIM, but not that learning it’s movement mappings will make your required APM (let alone mouse clicks) go up to “get stuff done”. Honestly, once a basic set of these movements has been learned, any other editor without them will feel like a drag.

True, git itself can’t prevent people from creating a mess of a commit graph.

TBH, lots of build systems mentioned here I’ve never encountered so far. But this makes it clearer that one can’t reason about how viable a “one big monorepo only” approach mighy be by just considering the capabilities of current git, coming from a “manyrepo” mindset. Likely that was the pitfall I fell into coming into this discussion.

So AFAIU, if a company had:

• frontend
• backend
• desktop apps
• mobile apps

… and all those apps would share some smaller, self developed libraries / components with the frontend and/or backend, then the “no submodules, but one big monorepo” approach would be to just put all those apps into that monorepo as well and simply reference whatever shared code there might be via relative paths, effectively tracking “latest”, or maybe some distinct “stable version folders” (not sure if that’s a thing).

Anyway, certainly never thought to go that far, because having an app that’s “mostly independant” from a codebase perspective be in it’s own repo seemed beneficial. But yeah, it seems to me this is a matter of scale and at some point the cost of not having everything in a monorepo would become too great.

Thanks!

But if not for using submodules, how can one share code between (mono-)repos, which rely on the same common “module” / library / etc.? Is it a matter of “not letting submodules usage get out of hand”, sticking to an “upper limit of submodules”, or are submodules to be avoided entirely for monorepos of a certain scale and there’s a better option?

Have a ZOWIE EC2 for quite a while now:

• gaming mouse, 5 buttons
• USB compliant
• no special vendor drivers needed to use all mouse features (has buttons on bottom side for settings)

Works well on all OS.