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by aanm1988 3428 days ago
Google uses some variant of perforce, just like MS has been doing.
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voxic11 3428 days ago
They used to, but now they use Piper which is built on top of mercurial.
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delroth 3428 days ago
Piper is not built on top of Mercurial.
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voxic11 3428 days ago
Sorry, you are right, I got it confused with some other work Google was doing to improve the scalability of mercurial. It's not based on perforce though either, appears to be entirely custom technology.
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stp-ip 3428 days ago
They first outgrew git, then outgrew perforce and implemented a custom server on top of their usual storage/database stack.
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