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Why Facebook doesn’t use Git

graphite.dev Why Facebook doesn’t use Git

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 th...

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What's the tl;dr; on this? Or I can just try to read this later :-p
- "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:)
  
  Thanks a lot. The article was too long and I didn't read it. :)
  
  I'm going to post a New Yorker article because of this comment.