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Microsoft is aligning on Git, so it's unlikely that anything will change (and the horror stories of the past are no-longer applicable for new aqui-hires.)

• CydeWeys 10y ago
  Vanilla git can't handle a repo the size of Microsoft's combined codebase though; surely there must be some additional secret sauce involved?
  • yebyen 10y ago
    Well I'd suggest "repo" -- the tool that goes with Gerrit, and collects many git repos into reviewable release units with a manifest. That's what Android does. (But I'd guess that's probably enough to shoot it down as a tool for Microsoft to ever use, right there. Not rightfully, but likely in fact... maybe that's the old Microsoft though.)
  • jmspring 10y ago
    A lot of development around Azure tools is done in the open under various "groups" -- MicrosoftDx, Azure, etc -- there is no one "source repo" for all products. Even when I was at Skype, the repo for that was separate from that for S4B, etc -- I'm sure this has changed in the last few years. But, there isn't a monolithic repo. Something like Office or Windows, well, that's outside my wheel house of knowledge.
  • johngossman 10y ago
    Yup. GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/...
  • outside1234 10y ago
    There is no combined Microsoft codebase
    • pbhjpbhj 10y ago
      From the cited Microsoft link: >"the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size." //
      • porges 10y ago
        That's just Windows. There's no combined codebase akin to Google's.