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by notwhereyouare 501 days ago
we hired contractors to move us from source gear to git and they said "moving the history would be too hard, so we didn't"

lost probably 10+ years of history
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almostnormal 501 days ago
Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.
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kridsdale3 501 days ago
There are a million files in the Meta monorepo starting with FB. I don't think they even changed the practice.
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pavlov 501 days ago
You see, the “fb” in fbcode stands for “fierce & beautiful”.
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SenHeng 501 days ago
“Fast Breaking”
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JensRantil 501 days ago
facepalm
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