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.
    • lad@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Made easier to use like in when their codebase was leaked and no one had successfully built a game from it?

      in-house tools often encourage making a mess heavily reliant on those tools or working around their limitations, in my experience