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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by gremlinExtra on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:37AM (#40846837)
Git also just doesn't play nice with monorepos of the scale of Google's/Facebooks. From a different article explaining why FB moved away from Git:

"The engineers tried running a simulation, creating a dummy repo that matched the expected scale of Facebook’s codebase in a few years. The result was horrifying - basic Git commands took over 45 minutes to complete."[1]

[1] https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git

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Re:How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perfor... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:50AM (#40846970)
Yeah, I remember this. The team involved did try really hard to get the Git team to listen to them, before working with Mercurial (and later building their own thing, although that was after I left).
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