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> neither Google nor Facebook use git What do Google and FB use as their VCS? Also, any source? I don't mean this to be an attack, I am just genuinely amazed b
by BossingAround 7y ago
> neither Google nor Facebook use git
What do Google and FB use as their VCS? Also, any source? I don't mean this to be an attack, I am just genuinely amazed by the statement.
- Volt 7y agoFacebook uses Mercurial.
- compiler-guy 7y agoGoogle uses a custom implementation of the Perforce interface called Piper. Google has looked at git and mercurial, but have concluded that they can't scale to the level they need it to. Read more about it here: 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...