Why Facebook does not use Git – and why most other devs do • DEVCLASS - eviltoast
Facebook internal development started out on Subversion with a Git mirror but switched to Mercurial for source code […]
  • Facebook does not use Git due to scale issues with their large monorepo, instead opting for Mercurial.
  • Mercurial may be a better option for large monorepos, but Git has made improvements to support them better.
  • Despite some drawbacks, Git usage remains dominant with 93.87% share, due to familiarity, additional tools, and industry trends.
  • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    I know we were less likely to work on the same file concurrently.

    I mean, isn’t that when merge conflicts happen? Isn’t that your answer?

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I was trying to say that tools were better about letting us know that another developer was modifying the same file as us, so we would collaborate in advance of creating the conflict.