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Is this true???
A variant of perforce (loosely speaking) Many teams use git. There are perforce2git tools that replicates git commits in background
They have their own monorepo called google3 and self-hosted git repos for open source projects like Android and Chromium.
You want Sundar to dance some more??
I’d love to see sundar do the Macarena at the next Google I/o meeting yes
😂
I have no idea what we use
Bc every other f500 company uses GitHub
Not sure where you got this from, not many use github. Mostly startups use github
Big tech builds everything in house.
That’s the vibe I’m getting looking into this. I’ve never worked at “big tech”. Just a lotta IT jobs at rando companies
To be fair, Google was a thing before git. Once upon a time, git development was slower than the internal tool and couldn’t keep up Google’s growth so it makes no sense to move. Now, it became too big too move and the upsides doesn’t outweigh the cost
Same, git couldn’t handle Meta’s codebase so Meta hacked hg.
Well, at first we tried to add some performance improvements to git but Torvalds was like "nah, massive monorepos are too niche so we're not going to accept your changes". Then we talked to the Mercurial maintainers and they were happy to take our contributions.
Many companies(example Amazon) host their code on Git and have a similar skin/UI on top like Github. They will have a separate team running it.
https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext
isn’t this just why they use a monorepo and not why they don’t use git.
Git wasn’t able to handle a billion lines of code in 2016