Why Facebook doesn’t use Git

TLDRFacebook chose to use Mercurial instead of Git due to performance issues and the willingness of the Mercurial community to collaborate. They considered alternatives such as Perforce and Bitkeeper but ultimately found Mercurial to have cleaner architecture. Facebook successfully migrated their engineering organization to Mercurial.

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First, why I careWhy and how Facebook migrated off GitAlternatives consideredMigrating the whole engineering orgClosing thoughts
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