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Re:Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf] by tgtweak on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:13AM (#17615638)
This is correct, but perforce got them to the level they could create their own tooling around git to make it work.
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Re:Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf] by jounker on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:45AM (#17615777)
Google replaced perforce with Piper, a perforce compatible system written in-house. This system was not based on git.

There were systems that allowed you to mirror portions of piper into local git repo, giving you a git-like experience on top of piper, but the underlaying system was piper and not git. (At this point my knowledge is 4 years out of date.)

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Re:Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf] by acqq on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:17AM (#17615656)
Git? I thought Google uses a custom system?
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Re:Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (2011) [pdf] by BuschnicK on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:58AM (#17616051)
We do. It's called Piper: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
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