[steveklabnik]

Backends can do whatever. The git backend knows how to push to git remotes. If you used a different backend, it would know what those backends expect. There aren’t any of these publicly, but Google has one to work with piper.

[fragmede]

Google's internal git support for the Google3 monorepo was deprecated/is unsupported in favor of fig, the mercurial/hg based client for Google3.

Microsoft has a custom git client internally which includes a filesystem shim (think: the Windows equivalent of FUSE) since stat-ing monorepo amounts of files doesn't work. Also GitHub's running custom git servers, though their custom database backend is behind a compatibility layer.

Finally, sapling, Meta's git replacement which maintains supports for git servers also supports sapling servers (which was not released). Unsure whether to count that as a git backend though.

[steveklabnik]

For sure. This kind of thing is very useful. It’s why jj is backend agnostic by design.