Facebook internal development started out on Subversion with a Git mirror but switched to Mercurial for source code […]
  • 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.
  • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    As far as performance goes, Microsoft did manage to make it work for them later on (…with many contributions upstreamed and homegrown solutions developed).