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What exactly does “git compatible” mean? I may have missed it, but didn't see it skimming the post.
I just cannot understand how a CTO approves this type of project. Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved. Is it a pet project for a 10x engineer and it's allowed just to keep them on board? There are projects, like Apache Hadoop, that are open-sourced because they're an open-source…
I just cannot understand how a CTO approves this type of project. Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved. Is it a pet project for a 10x engineer and it's allowed just to keep them on board? There are projects, like Apache Hadoop, that are open-sourced because they're an open-source…
Google did exactly the same thing, but hasn't open-sourced their tools.
Projects to drive incremental productivity make not a lot of sense for small companies, but become immensely valuable at very large companies. A 1% improvement if you have an engineering staff of even just 10k is worth 100 engineers, and FB is much larger than 10k.
Not a big fan of FB as a company, but I think their open source work is pretty impressive. Various other large companies have the problem of giant monorepos that they constantly need to onboard new developers to, but I can't think of anyone other than FB who consistently released their solutions. Sure, most people are probably fine with Git once they learned it and if they only work with small to mid sized code bases…
Thank god. I have been waiting ten years ( https://www.google.com/url?q=https://stevebennett.me/2012/02... ) for someone to develop a better CLI for git, someone with the scale and clout to do it well and gain mindshare. It's not that useful to learn a new workflow if no one you ever work with will be familiar with it. This looks incredible. A simple command to uncommit or unamend makes you further realise what a dis…
Nooooooooooo. Whatever is to come of my cute animations! [Think of the trains!]( https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl )
I just cannot understand how a CTO approves this type of project. Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved. Is it a pet project for a 10x engineer and it's allowed just to keep them on board? There are projects, like Apache Hadoop, that are open-sourced because they're an open-source…
I just cannot understand how a CTO approves this type of project. Imagine running a company and some engineer comes in and and says they want to develop a new source control system. I don't understand under what circumstances this is approved. Is it a pet project for a 10x engineer and it's allowed just to keep them on board? There are projects, like Apache Hadoop, that are open-sourced because they're an open-source…
Under the circumstance that no existing source control system can handle a monorepo as large as Google's or FB's. The custom source control system is not a hobby. It is vital to both companies.