alt Hacker NewsMy first real job was at Oracle. At the time Oracle started to write their own source control system (and move off of clearcase, which was a very reasonable thing to do).
The guy who ran that project called it his "$LASTNAME law" that every large company will at some point write their own source control system.
I laughed.
About a year later I went to Google, and within a couple of years Google also did the same thing.
Not at all surprised. Git was just good enough (and cheap enough) the companies didn't need to do this to escape the {phsyical scaling, cost scaling} problems that most commercial SCM systems had.
Cursor's blog on scaling Git makes me think that Anthropic just likes reinventing the wheel with their infinite token capacity: https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
Cursor scaled git to way more writes/s than Anthropic did with their rewrite.