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> That's why Facebook chose to just fix the slow parts of hg[1], rather than fix the slow parts of git, to build a VCS which would scale with its codebase. On
by whyever 8y ago
> That's why Facebook chose to just fix the slow parts of hg[1], rather than fix the slow parts of git, to build a VCS which would scale with its codebase.
On the other hand, Google seems to successfully use Git in the same way.
- jhasse 8y agoOr Microsoft (Windows is using Git).
- pjmlp 8y agoWith extensions to make it bearable for their code size.
- jhasse 8y agoJust as Facebook does for Hg: https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental
- yoden 8y agoMicrosoft wrote a new filesystem driver for git because extending the code itself was too difficult...
- jhasse 8y agoThey also worked a lot on Git itself.
- MikusR 8y agoGoogle does not use Git for its monorepo.
- qznc 8y agoAfaik Googlers can use git client-side. The central repo is certainly not git though. Also parts of Google, like Chrome, Android, and Go, do use git.