Facebook's git repo is 54GB

Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by coherentpony on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:44PM (#7649206)

So what? This probably means they're versioning data files they shouldn't be. I feel like this just exists here as a pissing contest.

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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by pekk on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:20PM (#7649397)

It is supposed to justify the engineering effort they put into switching to Mercurial, then trying to make it "scale." (Rather than just using separate repositories to begin with, according to the design of the tool and best practices)

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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by SnakeDoc on Saturday April 26, 2014 @07:01PM (#7653078)

aka. a pissing match to show "they are too big for any standard industry tools". Really speaks to the level of (non)expertise employed at FB.

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