• 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.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    SVN has the big advantage of serialized revision numbers. Which is essential for out build- and release-system.