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I can't quite tell what this is doing besides providing multiple terminal panels from a look at the front page. Can you help explain the unique workflow better?

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Yeah, the idea is that you set up a repo for a project (the hive), and then once you have the hive, you can set up multiple combs (git clones, not workspaces) and work in parallel. Suppose you have like 3-5 issues / tickets you're working on - the idea is that you can do this in parallel, in isolated dirs, and jump between them in one place. I used to have to do this in tabs in zellij / sessions in tmux and remember which sessions is which issue / ticket. Also having to manually git clone everytime was annoying. So this is an abstraction to simplify this. Does that make sense?

I think it's making sense. Many of my workflows involve e.g. multiple different repos that house different parts of something (e.g. deployment automation is over here, application itself is over there, sometimes a change needs to happen to both at once). I find myself having to work serially on tickets because two different issues might touch the same repos and so I manually maintain branches and switch around between them; this adds starting friction to my work.

Ah, if in different repos that would map to different hives, so that would require switching between hives in the top left drop down. Still persistent, but not as streamlined as clones within the same repo / combs in same hive. I have been spoiled (?) by monorepos so that's why designed for this.

> I have been spoiled (?) by monorepos so that's why designed for this.

I too find monorepos superior at this point in time. There are essentially the same complexities both ways (polyrepo), two sides of the same coin. I have broken slightly, having "megarepos", where most code is in one place, but a few are broken out, possibly another "megarepo". The most natural split is public vs private.

Conway's Law: repo structures reflect team structures and permissions mapping.

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