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This won’t go anywhere even if it’s 20% better than git. To replace git’s network effects, you need to be 10x better. Nobody is trying to replace git; that’s n
by alwillis 4y ago
This won’t go anywhere even if it’s 20% better than git. To replace git’s network effects, you need to be 10x better.
Nobody is trying to replace git; that’s not a stated goal. Plus git is so entrenched, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
However, few companies have more gigantic code bases than Facebook, which not that long ago, had their entire monorepo [1] in Mercurial, which had certain advantages over Git at the time.
So if there’s an organization that knows the pinpoints of version control, I’d put Facebook on that list. They’ve been working on approving version control at scale for more than 8 years.
As long as it’s git-compatible, the git true believers will have nothing to worry about.
[1]: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...