18 Dec
2024
18 Dec
'24
3:05 a.m.
Not really. It was just the Perforce data model (which I still think is the
nicest I've used) and UI, with a completely new implementation on Google
infrastructure. To me and most others, it was the same as using Perforce.
It was a remarkable achievement.
-rob
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 2:54 AM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Google ran on Perforce in the early days, then on
an internal
reimplementation that could scale better (long story). I believe that's
still the case, as git continues to be desired by the users but unworkable
as the core repo at the required scale. Clever hackery allows git to feel
like it's being used, but it's all above what was at least at one time
Perforce.
My info could well be out of date, though.
-rob
Rob, can you tell us anything about Piper?
Marc