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Re:Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta by KaiserPro on Thursday September 19, 2024 @05:52AM (#41590192)
> Plenty of other customers with the same magnitude problems as Meta are using Git perfectly fine.

I mean there aren't. there are perhaps three places that have the same scale problem.

A monorepo for a place with about 50k developers, that has been operating at that scale for 5 years.

The current checkout if not sparse would be >80gigs

The commit rate is > 20 a second.

no amount of branching strategy is going to help on that.

I love git, I used it professionally since 2010, but git is not a good fit for something _massive_

Re:Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta by ec109685 on Thursday September 19, 2024 @09:48AM (#41591801)
Microsoft has made git work for massive repositories through a lot of blood sweat and tears: https://github.blog/open-source/git/the-story-of-scalar/