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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by whyever on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:15AM (#18030597)
> That's why Facebook chose to just fix the slow parts of hg[1], rather than fix the slow parts of git, to build a VCS which would scale with its codebase.

On the other hand, Google seems to successfully use Git in the same way.

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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by MikusR on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:07AM (#18030807)
Google does not use Git for its monorepo.
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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by qznc on Thursday September 20, 2018 @01:57PM (#18034310)
Afaik Googlers can use git client-side. The central repo is certainly not git though.

Also parts of Google, like Chrome, Android, and Go, do use git.

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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by jhasse on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:48AM (#18030740)
Or Microsoft (Windows is using Git).
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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by pjmlp on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:43AM (#18030954)
With extensions to make it bearable for their code size.
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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by jhasse on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:54AM (#18031004)
Just as Facebook does for Hg: https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hg-experimental
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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by yoden on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:13AM (#18033035)
Microsoft wrote a new filesystem driver for git because extending the code itself was too difficult...
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Re:Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab by jhasse on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:50AM (#18033348)
They also worked a lot on Git itself.
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