Facebook's git repo is 54GB
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Facebook's git repo is 54GB
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Re: Facebook's git repo is 54GB
#2Pay attention to the footnote:
*8 GB plus 46 GB .git directoryRe: Facebook's git repo is 54GB
#3Pay attention to the footnote: *8 GB plus 46 GB .git directory
8 GB is still a lot. Would be interesting to know how much of it is actual code and how much is just images and so on.
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Why's it bad to store source code on Git?
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#6Re: Facebook's git repo is 54GB
#7Didn't they switch to Mercurial?
https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
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#8I thought I had read an article about facebook switching to perforce due to their really large git repo. Were they at least thinking about it?
A quick google comes up with nothing but I could have SWORN I read that.
Re: Facebook's git repo is 54GB
#9I bet most of that size is made up from the various dependencies Facebook probably has, though I'm still surprised it's that large. I expected the background worker things, like the facial recognition system for tagging people, and the video re-encoding libs, to be housed on separate repositories.
I also wonder if that size includes a snapshot of a subset of Facebook's Graph, so that each developer has a "mini-facebook" to work on that's large enough to be representative of the actual site (so that feed generation and other functionalities take somewhat the same time to execute.)
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Why's it bad to store source code on Git ?
Its not bad, is really nice, but Git has one problem, when you codebase is big, the process takes a long time, imagine git scanning those 8GB every time you do a commit, that is why Facebook was looking to port all their code to another VCS