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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by igravious on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @07:14PM (#7020921)
This rather surprised me as well. I tend to think of the Linux kernel as one of the larger single code-bases out there. Am I wrong?
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by michal8181 on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @03:54PM (#7026532)
Yes.

As described here http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million... Facebook code base (~60 MLOC) if almost 4 times bigger than Linux 3.1 (a mere 15 MLOC).

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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by bpicolo on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @08:49PM (#7021192)
It's one of the largest open source projects perhaps. But when you get into a large company like facebook who creates a hell of a lot of different things the numbers are way higher.
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Re:Scaling Mercurial at Facebook by Crito on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @01:12PM (#7025288)
The kernel is measured in hundreds of megabytes. There are companies with codebases measured in terabytes.
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