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Yes they did. They choose to scale out Mecurial to solve their problem. Wonder if they still use Mercurial? https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/sca

by mox1 10y ago

Yes they did. They choose to scale out Mecurial to solve their problem. Wonder if they still use Mercurial? https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

jbergens 10y ago
They did a couple of months ago so I assume they still do.
kyrra 10y ago
Both Facebook and Google are continuing to contribute to Mercurial, so they both have some vested interest in it. If you poke around the commits on the repo[0] you'll see commits from people with @fb.com and @google.com email addresses. The mailing lists also has activity from both companies still. As well, the Mercurial team does quarterly sprints (I believe), and Google is hosting the next one[1]. [0] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg [1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint
- durin42 10y ago
  Sprints are twice a year, once in the US and once in Europe.
janwh 10y ago
They do. Durham Goode (Tech Lead on Source Control at Facebook) just held a talk at Git-Merge about how they scaled Mercurial at Fb. They seem to be quite happy with it, albeit applying quite a few restrictions on their internal users that are not really transferable to the general (outside-corporate) usage of VCS (for example only rebases are allowed, directly committing to master all the time, etc.)
- durin42 10y ago
  That's actually pretty comparable to how we tend to operate the Mercurial project, FYI. We tend to prefer rebase to merge for feature work.
  - krallja 10y ago
    Do you use Changeset Evolution?
    - askushner 10y ago
      Very small fraction of FB engineers use Changeset Evolution. We have new workflows based on some of the underpinnings of Evolution, but without the UI confusion.

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Yes they did. They choose to scale out Mecurial to solve their problem. Wonder if they still use Mercurial? https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/sca

by mox1 10y ago

jbergens 10y ago
They did a couple of months ago so I assume they still do.
kyrra 10y ago
Both Facebook and Google are continuing to contribute to Mercurial, so they both have some vested interest in it. If you poke around the commits on the repo[0] you'll see commits from people with @fb.com and @google.com email addresses. The mailing lists also has activity from both companies still. As well, the Mercurial team does quarterly sprints (I believe), and Google is hosting the next one[1]. [0] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg [1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint
- durin42 10y ago
  Sprints are twice a year, once in the US and once in Europe.
janwh 10y ago
They do. Durham Goode (Tech Lead on Source Control at Facebook) just held a talk at Git-Merge about how they scaled Mercurial at Fb. They seem to be quite happy with it, albeit applying quite a few restrictions on their internal users that are not really transferable to the general (outside-corporate) usage of VCS (for example only rebases are allowed, directly committing to master all the time, etc.)
- durin42 10y ago
  That's actually pretty comparable to how we tend to operate the Mercurial project, FYI. We tend to prefer rebase to merge for feature work.
  - krallja 10y ago
    Do you use Changeset Evolution?
    - askushner 10y ago
      Very small fraction of FB engineers use Changeset Evolution. We have new workflows based on some of the underpinnings of Evolution, but without the UI confusion.