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I think they just want to modify Git and don't have any solid C developers that can make such things. So they turned to a python solution which is perfectly fin

I think they just want to modify Git and don't have any solid C developers that can make such things. So they turned to a python solution which is perfectly fine. But webkit, and chromium, as well as other GIANT projects which as far as I know are larger then Facebook seem to work fine on Git.

eddieh 13y ago
WebKit uses Subversion (http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html). You can use Git with the WebKit repo, but it's git-svn doing the work...
khuey 13y ago
You really believe that Facebook couldn't find a competent C programmer to make some changes to git?
- kanzure 13y ago
  Would you accept an answer that complains about how hard it is to hire programmers? :)
jaseemabid 13y ago
Its still one of the coolest and best paid companies out there! You really think they couldn't hire a few guys from core git team saying - "Dude, just improve git and we'll pay you?". You must be kidding
randartie 13y ago
It's a bold assumption that those open source projects are larger than facebook, a company which employs 2000+ engineers. webkit and chromium have about 6 or 7 million lines of code and < 200,000 commits. Facebook 6 months ago had 62 million lines of code and > 1000 commits a day. http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-code-is-Facebook http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-... Also, there's a difference between those open source projects using large repos with git and Facebook wanting to increase developer efficiency. Developers sitting around waiting for a rebase doesn't really pay off, where as an open source project can get away with it.
Crito 13y ago
The idea is that you should not have to modify git or mercurial. Instead of modifying git or mercurial to handle a single repo for your entire company, you should create a system that uses them to handle many repos in your company. You don't need C programmers to do this with git.

eddieh 13y ago

WebKit uses Subversion (http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html http://www.webkit.org/building/checkout.html). You can use Git with the WebKit repo, but it's git-svn doing the work...

khuey 13y ago

You really believe that Facebook couldn't find a competent C programmer to make some changes to git?

kanzure 13y ago
Would you accept an answer that complains about how hard it is to hire programmers? :)

jaseemabid 13y ago

Its still one of the coolest and best paid companies out there! You really think they couldn't hire a few guys from core git team saying - "Dude, just improve git and we'll pay you?". You must be kidding

randartie 13y ago

It's a bold assumption that those open source projects are larger than facebook, a company which employs 2000+ engineers. webkit and chromium have about 6 or 7 million lines of code and < 200,000 commits. Facebook 6 months ago had 62 million lines of code and > 1000 commits a day. http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-code-is-Facebook http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-many-lines-of-... Also, there's a difference between those open source projects using large repos with git and Facebook wanting to increase developer efficiency. Developers sitting around waiting for a rebase doesn't really pay off, where as an open source project can get away with it.

Crito 13y ago

The idea is that you should not have to modify git or mercurial. Instead of modifying git or mercurial to handle a single repo for your entire company, you should create a system that uses them to handle many repos in your company. You don't need C programmers to do this with git.