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alexhutcheson on Jan 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

Facebook[1] and Google[2] have both publicly stated that they are using Mercurial internally, so "near death" seems like an exaggeration. Mercurial has some significant advantages over Git if you want to implement a scalable backend for really large repos.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-fa...

[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

BjorksEgo on Jan 7, 2020 [–]

Theres been plenty of work done to make git enterprise scale in the last year

https://vfsforgit.org/

alexhutcheson on Jan 7, 2020 | [–]

That's a promising project, but it's currently Windows-only. My main point was that Mercurial is very much "not dead yet!"

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