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Hi, I'm the Han-Wen from the title. The story mentions git because git5 got me into developer tooling. More in particular, it put me in touch with Shawn Pearce
by hanwenn 3y ago
Hi, I'm the Han-Wen from the title.
The story mentions git because git5 got me into developer tooling. More in particular, it put me in touch with Shawn Pearce who ran the Git/Gerrit team at Google. When I went to work for him, Shawn wanted to have codesearch support in Gerrit, and Zoekt was ultimately the outcome of my explorations in this space.
IIRC, Git5 was deleted approximately 5 years ago because Fig (the Hg based replacement) had taken over all the use cases
- dag11 3y agoIs Fig still kicking? I worked on it a bit as an intern back in 2014, but Mercurial has also been on its way out of mainstream support over the last few years. It was a really neat project!
- hanwenn 3y agoSee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LGilOuE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_LGilOuE4. I think the plan is to replace to it with something based off JJ.