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If they deliver the virtual filesystem and server, this will be 10x better for large companies and large organized FOSS teams, who very often hit Git's pain poi
by aseipp 4y ago
If they deliver the virtual filesystem and server, this will be 10x better for large companies and large organized FOSS teams, who very often hit Git's pain points with relative ease, and the compatibility with Git from the client side means it has very easy onboarding for new users to get their feet wet. I've struggled with all these to varying degrees at almost every job and (non-solo) FOSS project I've been in; I've long wished for something like what's described here many, many times.
No joke, this might solve every major pain point I've had in mid-size-to-large teams in both the FOSS and proprietary world if it can deliver on what it says here, not to mention many issues with monorepo migration, work sharing, subproject management, etc. Many of these problems are very real but mostly ignored or we've decided to live with them.
Git is great, I'm one of the earliest GitHub users there is. I was also an early user of Darcs (which formed the theoretical basis for later competitors like Pijul -- so I'm not unfamiliar with radically different approaches), have a lot of experience with all kinds of administrative Git tasks for large repos; there's still plenty of room to fill gaps with new blood.