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[robertharris]

"git is terrible, google's tools are like science fiction compared to the rest of the world!"
*refuses to elaborate*
*leaves*

[DaLoler]

All I got from this is "Google has better tools, trust me bro"

[icedtonberry]

This fellow said a lot without really saying anything at all.

[JonathanTheZombie]

Git is the reason why our -10x engineer can’t do permanent damage to our build system

[tc]

Felt more like a career flex than any actual valid points

[JustDeeevin]

He never really gave any reason why Git is bad. He just said it was bad and they decided he was right.

[samfelton]

Git is the only technology I use that I don’t hate and now you want to take it from me 😭

[bilbobeutlin]

If Google's internal documentation is so good, why are all the public docs so awful 😞

[thingsiplay]

Git does not scale? How on earth are the Linux devs working with Git?

[Thect]

Tom have a perfect versioning system, much better than Google's tool and git, he's a genius

[iggytt]

Google obsession is not a mark of a useful software developer.

[korzinko]

I need world-scale for the repo with 40 commits and 10 javscript files

[Whatthetrash]

This guy is the programming equivalent of Comic Book Guy from Simpsons. "Worst. Source Control. Ever." (then doesn't explain why or give concrete examples)

[embedded_software]

The real question is: whose fault is it that you have 100k repos? That's insane

[ankitsanghi]

He’s probably talking about the entire workflow at google. It’s super easy to do things. You have an internal web based IDE, it’s integrated into the internal version control system which is custom built to handle Google’s monorepo and handle thousands of changes at once, once you make a change it opens it up in the custom code review tool (which to be fair is very nice) and then once it’s approved you just hit submit and runs all tests when checks. You also don’t need to set up your testing pipeline since the google custom server framework handles all that for you. It’s very hard to break that up and sell it since for one piece to function seamlessly you need everything else as well

[Mglunafh]

Very confusing. This had "old man yells at clouds" vibes in the first part and some google shilling in the second one. "I wanted to share with y'all that google devs can program tools and stuff, isn't it cool?"

[sirhenrystalwart]

This guy is completely incoherent. His argument for why git sucks is basically just making guttural icky noises. Onomatopoeia is not an argument.

[ChrisCarlos]

I remember when I joined my team they used SVN but had no clue about how to do basic version control right. Basically everyone made their own folders and then they would copy and paste the code into a single "master" folder. No one even knew how to check in changes or anything. It was just a glorified file share.

I managed to teach them proper version control strategies and make them go to Git. Life has been better since.

[markoates]

"Hammers are not very intuitive."
*Hammers self in face*
"See!!?"

[opensourcedev]

If he worked for me and described issues this way without any semblance of cogent thought and analysis - he would have a much harder time getting my attention next time.