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durin42 on Jan 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

Note that Facebook is trying to scale a single large repository, not an army of slightly smaller ones. It's a very different problem, and has to be solved in a very different way.

daleharvey on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

I have seen presentations mentioning google development done as a single monolothic repository

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Development-at-Google

tonfa on Jan 8, 2014 | | [–]

This monolithic repo isn't a git repo.

spiffytech on Jan 9, 2014 | | | [–]

Correct. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020859

Timmmmbob on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

Android is only split up into smaller repositories because git can't handle having it all in one.

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