Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Git Is Awful | Prime Reacts" video.

  1. 14:00 The thing he's describing seems like version visualization tools and totally agnostic to underlying version control system. Maybe he has some weird interpretation for the concept "version control system"?
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  2. All I want to know is that does this guy really want "world scale" version control where everybody creates new commits all the time in a single shared version history? If you think looking at history graph of a typical Git repo looks complex, imagine how it would look for "world scale" version control!
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  3. If you literally have 100k repos in a company, you're doing something seriously wrong. Unless you're counting the clones, too, meaning that a engineer working in 5 projects will increase the counter by 5 at minimum and much more if they have multiple working directories and/or submodules. And with distributed version control, you do want lots of clones and if you think that's a problem, you just have minor brain damage caused by CVS and SVN. I would have wanted to see them ask what kind of features this interviewee was looking for. From everything I read between the lines, it seems to me that this developer just really likes more centralized version control and Git clashes quite badly with that. And Google internal systems probably have good enough networking so they can actually make centralized version control to work well.
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