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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] 2 points 3 months ago (8 children)

What kind of RCS is used always depends on the organisation. We are actually using GIT and SVN, and both make sense for the departments that are using them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Because Facebook is a terrible company that can't even build a functional website. They think they know better than the entire industry, yet can't get basic features like browser history, link sharing, back buttons, or even comments and zooming working. Fuckin idiots.

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