Why Facebook doesn’t use Git

https://graphite.dev/blog/why-facebook-doesnt-use-git

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jgrim@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What's the tl;dr; on this? Or I can just try to read this later :-p

wilecoyote@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

"Facebook didn’t adopt Mercurial because it was more performant than Git. They adopted it because the maintainers and codebase felt more open to collaboration. Facebook engineers met face-to-face with Mercurial maintainers and liked the idea of partnering"

This was one of the last paragraphs of the article:)

jgrim@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thanks a lot. The article was too long and I didn't read it. :)

ericjmorey@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y

I'm going to post a New Yorker article because of this comment.