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Why Did Facebook (Meta) Say "No" to Git? A Story of Scaling, Community, and Giant Monorepos

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Joseph HE
Software Engineer

Why Did Facebook (Meta) Say "No" to Git? A Story of Scaling, Community, and Giant Monorepos

In the world of software development, Git is ubiquitous. It's the default tool for millions of developers and projects, almost a given, "as common as water," as our source's author points out. It's perceived as the only viable solution for managing code. So imagine the surprise of discovering that Facebook (now Meta), one of the world's largest tech companies, does not use Git as its primary version control system for its immense monorepos.