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<wrong>Google is still using don't-look-behind-the-curtain-it's-totally-not-Perforce-but-it's-Perforce</wrong> Google is using a Perforce lookalike that is not
by gecko 11y ago
<wrong>Google is still using don't-look-behind-the-curtain-it's-totally-not-Perforce-but-it's-Perforce</wrong>
Google is using a Perforce lookalike that is not actually Perforce, but they're moving to Mercurial. Subversion also scales up to similar sizes, although I confess to not knowing what "similar" means. (I do know that Google did an experiment and concluded that Subversion would scale to their needs, but they were already committed to Perforce by that point.)
EDIT: Got corrected by someone who has good reason to know.
- kalmar 11y ago> Google is using a Perforce lookalike that is not actually Perforce, but they're moving to Mercurial. Do you have a source for this move to mercurial? This is the second time I've heard it, but couldn't find a source before.
- gecko 11y agoI don't have a publishable source, no, but you can look at the number of @google.com email addresses on the Mercurial mailing list if you want some to do your own inference, or just hang in there for a bit and you won't have to. :)
- rockdoe 11y agoI find it curious you were corrected. I think I observed Google employees contributing to improved Mercurial scaling, which also hints in that direction?