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0 pointseru4y ago0 comments

And Google uses a hacked up Perforce.

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Nothing hacked about it. They rewrote it completely, keeping just the interface for compatibility. Perforce scales very well but still has a single server at its core - at some point no matter how much money google threw at that machine (it used to be the beefiest single server they had), it just couldn't keep up.

eruOP4y ago

Yes. Sorry, I was a bit sloppy in my expression.

It started out as vanilla, then hacked up, and then the re-write.

I think Facebook's mercurial was/is also a special edition? Or is everything they do upstreamed?

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quantumofalpha4y ago

eruOP4y ago

Yes. Sorry, I was a bit sloppy in my expression.

It started out as vanilla, then hacked up, and then the re-write.

I think Facebook's mercurial was/is also a special edition? Or is everything they do upstreamed?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse