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Re:Switched from Subversion to Git by barrkel on Sunday August 16, 2009 @08:22AM (#766005)
500,000 lines isn't a lot of code. The compiler I work on has almost that many lines, but the larger product (IDE) has many millions.
Re:Switched from Subversion to Git by plinkplonk on Sunday August 16, 2009 @08:33AM (#766017)
"500,000 lines isn't a lot of code."

in Java. Not to spawn any language wars, but imagine 500,000 "lines" in something like J, FORTH or even Factor.