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Git also just doesn't play nice with monorepos of the scale of Google's/Facebooks. From a different article explaining why FB moved away from Git:

"The engineers tried running a simulation, creating a dummy repo that matched the expected scale of Facebook’s codebase in a few years. The result was horrifying - basic Git commands took over 45 minutes to complete."[1]

[1] https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git

Are you implying graphite.dev is somehow affiliated with Google's PR team?
Re:How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:26AM (#39943570)
Can truly never get over "expertsexchange.com"

What were they thinking...