alt Hacker NewsWhat is kind of funny here is that you're right locally. At the same time, the larger tech companies (Meta and Google, specifically) ended up building off of hg and not git because (at the time, especially) git cannot scale up to their use cases. So while the git CLI was super fast, and the hg CLI was slow, "performance" means more than just CLI speed.
I was never a fan of hg either, but now I can use jj, and get some of those benefits without actually using it directly.
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Small nit: Googles monorepo is based on Perforce.
I think what happened is Google bought a license for source code and customised it.
Right, and I'm glad there are projects serving The Cathedral, but I live in The Bazaar so I'm glad The Bazaar won.
The efforts to sell priest robes to fruit vendors were a little silly, but I'm glad they didn't catch on because if they had caught on they no longer would have been silly.
>At the same time, the larger tech companies (Meta and Google, specifically) ended up building off of hg and not git because (at the time, especially) git cannot scale up to their use cases.
Fun story: I don't really know what Microsoft's server-side infra looked like when they migrated the OS repo to git (which, contrary to the name, contains more than just stuff related to the Windows OS), but after a few years they started to hit some object scaling limitations where the easiest solution was to just freeze the "os" repo and roll everyone over to "os2".