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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by danbruc on Friday April 25, 2014 @04:26PM (#7648855)
Facebook now has 7000 employees and is 10 years old. Each employee would have had to write 14 kiB of code (357 LOC with 40 (random guess of mine) characters per LOC) every day during this 10 years to produce 8 GiB of code. (Obviously assuming the repository contains only non-compressed code and only one version of everything and no metadata and...)
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by patmcguire on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:05PM (#7649318)
If they've got memcached with their own patches, linux with their own patches, Hadoop with their own patches, etc. and tons of translations I can see 8 gigs of text.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by zhemao on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:37PM (#7649490)
Why would they put that all in the same repository? I'm pretty sure this 8 GB repo is just their website code. A frontend dev working on a Timeline feature shouldn't have to check out the Linux kernel.
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