Tingle's Technology Notes

infoneernet:

Mike started the talk by giving the developers a good laugh: it seems that Google manages its kernel code with Perforce. He apologized for that. There is a single tree that all developers commit to. About every 17 months, Google rebases its work to a current mainline release; what follows is a long struggle to make everything work again. Once that’s done, internal “feature” releases happen about every six months.

Seen at LWN.net

Notable comment:

Posted Oct 21, 2009 5:19 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378)

if you’re going to have a blessed “central” repo anyway, who really cares if that repo is actually git, svn, perforce, etc, as long as you can use your DVCS of choice at the edge?

The alternative is changing years of accumulated tools & checks every time a new VCS comes out and you change your master repo’s storage format.

*shrug*