Explore the journey of Facebook's transition from Git to Mercurial, uncovering the technical and social dynamics that influenced one of the tech industry's pivotal decisions in source control management. This post delves into the reasons behind Facebook's shift, the challenges of scaling Git, and the pivotal role of community and collaboration in adopting Mercurial

Monorepos, performance problems, and a lot of asking

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This guy’s cute.

    Never heard of Hg before? SVN? CVS? Clearcase? SCCS? SCCS++ like unix used? I understand if source code management seems a new skill since it’s just been a part of devel for 40-ish years, but one writing about devel could get a handle on it first.

    I stopped reading when he wrote “these asks” like “ask” was a noun used by someone writing seriously and not a car salesman. I guess one could “action” an “ask” about the “spend” while “doing lunch”, as those all fit the 1984 sales-brody template.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      1 month ago

      I do not see what you mean by the second paragraph.

      Complaining about ask as a noun, an innovation that only picked up recently, sounds like “old man yells at cloud”. I do not get your association with some 80s salesman and have never seen such usage in any contemporary films. Also, how the heck is a blog post “someone writing seriously”?