- 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.
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That’s exactly the same in git
. The old commits are still there, they just don’t show up in git log
because nothing points to them.
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Does that not happen with Mercurial? If not that seems like a point against it.
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I’m confused, the behavior you just said was “exactly the same in git” is now a problem for Mercurial?