[TUHS] SCCS, TeamWare, BitKeeper, and Git

[Rob Pike]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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 My info could well be out of date, though.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?
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> Marc
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