Those of us working on smaller codebases may wonder what the big deal is. Facebook had a similar problem leading them to switch out to mercurial. https://code.

Those of us working on smaller codebases may wonder what the big deal is. Facebook had a similar problem leading them to switch out to mercurial. https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc... It is awesome that the problems could be solved in git itself. Also, kudos to the writer of the blog. It is a really high quality blog post. The percentile measures of performance, survey responses from users etc are very typical of solid incremental approaches to challenges faced by startups except these are internal customers.