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Re:Visual and interactive way to learn Git by sebmellen on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:58AM (#24588283)
Most big companies (think Google, Facebook scale) use a mix of Perforce [0] and Mercurial [1]. BitBucket supported Mercurial repositories up until recently, when they got rid of it, so now there's no super easy hosted Mercurial solution.

[0]: https://www.perforce.com/

[1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/

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Re:Visual and interactive way to learn Git by kubanczyk on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:12AM (#24589892)
> Google doesn't use Perforce anymore. It's been replaced with Piper, you can read about it in articles from about 2015 or so. Perforce didn't scale enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889958

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Re:Visual and interactive way to learn Git by sebmellen on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:18PM (#24595365)
Sorry, that's not true. I have a few friends who currently work at Google and I talked about remote work with them just recently. They all confirmed that Google uses Perforce.

EDIT: Here's a confirming article from September of 2018: https://www.perforce.com/blog/vcs/why-did-google-choose-cent...

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Re:Visual and interactive way to learn Git by MayeulC on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:05PM (#24591248)
https://sourcehut.org/ supports mercurial.
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