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Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do • DEVCLASS (devclass.com)
submitted 3 months ago by AnActOfCreation to c/programming
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  • Facebook does not use Git due to scale issues with their large monorepo, instead opting for Mercurial.
  • Mercurial may be a better option for large monorepos, but Git has made improvements to support them better.
  • Despite some drawbacks, Git usage remains dominant with 93.87% share, due to familiarity, additional tools, and industry trends.
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

Facebook uses Mercurial, but when people praise their developer tooling it's not just that. They're using their CLI which is built on top of Mercurial but cleans up its errors and commands further, it's all running on their own virtual filesystem (EdenFS), their dev testing in a customized version of chromium, and they sync code using their own in-house equivalent of GitHub, and all of it connects super nicely into their own customized version of VS Codium.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Damn that sounds sick

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What you can do with 84000 employees

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

And some good management. Probably not a common opinion around here, but my company is not a tenth of that size, with a hundredth the number of devs, yet different teams still end up copy pasting libraries. Because it's faster than convincing management DevOps is important.

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