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Small nit: Googles monorepo is based on Perforce. I think what happened is Google bought a license for source code and customised it.
by dijit 6mo ago
Small nit: Googles monorepo is based on Perforce.
I think what happened is Google bought a license for source code and customised it.
- steveklabnik 6mo agoYes, the server is based on Perforce, called Piper, but the CLI is based on mercurial. So locally you're doing hg and then when you create a CL, it translates it into what p4 needs.
- surajrmal 6mo agoDepends on what frontend tool you use. You can use either. These days you can also use jj. I'm not sure the backend resembles peforce any longer.
- unmole 6mo ago> Google bought a license for source code and customised it. That makes sense because vanilla Perforce is unbearably slow and impossible to scale. Last I checked, it was bought by Private Equity firms and actual product development had more or less stopped.