Comment by master_crab 10 months ago
If git is blocking you, you are using it wrong. Lotta instances of people treating it as an artifact repository. Use it correctly with a branching strategy that works for your use case and it's bulletproof.
Plenty of other customers with the same magnitude problems as Meta are using Git perfectly fine.
Particularly in 2014, when the git thing happened.
No one. Because people should know better than to use monorepos. Most teams at Amazon (which works at the same scale) religiously avoided them.
> Plenty of other customers with the same magnitude problems as Meta are using Git perfectly fine.
I mean there aren't. there are perhaps three places that have the same scale problem.
A monorepo for a place with about 50k developers, that has been operating at that scale for 5 years.
The current checkout if not sparse would be >80gigs
The commit rate is > 20 a second.
no amount of branching strategy is going to help on that.
I love git, I used it professionally since 2010, but git is not a good fit for something _massive_
Microsoft has made git work for massive repositories through a lot of blood sweat and tears: https://github.blog/open-source/git/the-story-of-scalar/
Who are the others with the same magnitude as Google and Meta’s monorepos?