Interesting article on Microsoft's transition to Git as the source control system for building Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-t... 3.5M files, 300GB repo.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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Very Interesting find Alan.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 25 May 2017 09:18 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Windows is now built using Git.
Interesting article on Microsoft's transition to Git as the source control system for building Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-t... 3.5M files, 300GB repo.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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That's interesting. I knew the history of Visual SourceSafe, but hadn't heard about Source Depot. That explains a lot of obscure comments I got from Softies when I was talking to them in 1999 for the SourceSafe book.
I think it's interesting they needed to build an entirely new virtual file system for their source code repo, while I can rebuild the Linux kernel on my own dinky i5 laptop.
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Interesting article on Microsoft's transition to Git as the source control system for building Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-t... 3.5M files, 300GB repo.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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I think it's interesting they needed to build an entirely new virtual file system for their source code repo, while I can rebuild the Linux kernel on my own dinky i5 laptop.
I don't think that's comparing like with like. What they're talking about is managing source control over thousands of developers in a source control system that revolves around local repos of 300GB each. You're building some existing source code on your laptop.
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