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I have been reading about Google's monorepo setup and source control system, and my answer to the question in the title is simple: they had money and people. It

by rty32 2y ago

I have been reading about Google's monorepo setup and source control system, and my answer to the question in the title is simple: they had money and people. It is hard to think any other company that is not of Google's scale would be able to create their in-house source control system and complete a migration. This especially feels true after my company failed migrate from Perforce to git. You don't just build your source control, you build an entire ecosystem around it. And you need (very well-paid, smart) people to do that.

Jensson 2y ago
> It is hard to think any other company that is not of Google's scale would be able to create their in-house source control system and complete a migration But it is easy to think of a company that is of Google's scale failing to complete such a migration, wasting years with many projects not being able to migrate and then ultimately having two systems that everyone has to sync between. That they actually succeeded at doing it instead of failing is the impressive part.