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I think having to reboot the server periodically (as well as the problems that prompted me to find how Google is running theirs) is evidence enough to argue aga

• brazzledazzle 11y ago
  When people say that perforce handles huge repos well they're referring to a characteristic of the technology not the server implementation of the technology. Git, on its own, is not very user friendly when it comes to large repos or binary files. It's a limitation of the technology regardless of server implementation. Believe me, I'm not saying that perforce is flawless. But there's a reason its used heavily in the game dev and media industries. Does it suck to administer? Certainly. Does that mean that Google's problems with scaling or operating something like perforce apply to most of us? No. Most of us can resolve issues with Perforce by applying some limitations and governance because we're not operating at the massive and distributed scale that google is.