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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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