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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by sghi on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:43PM (#10228408)
I believe that Facebook ran into problems scaling Git, outlined here - https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by rakoo on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:21PM (#10228659)
It looks to me like mercurial is easier to hack on than Git (written in clean Python vs written in C), and in their initial stage both mercurial and git weren't up to the task.
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