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This is correct, but perforce got them to the level they could create their own tooling around git to make it work.
by tgtweak 8y ago
This is correct, but perforce got them to the level they could create their own tooling around git to make it work.
- acqq 8y agoGit? I thought Google uses a custom system?
- BuschnicK 8y agoWe do. It's called Piper: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
- jounker 8y agoGoogle replaced perforce with Piper, a perforce compatible system written in-house. This system was not based on git. There were systems that allowed you to mirror portions of piper into local git repo, giving you a git-like experience on top of piper, but the underlaying system was piper and not git. (At this point my knowledge is 4 years out of date.)