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I wonder how many people really has this problem

… I wonder how many people really has this problem. Millions of people have been using github and gitlab. I'm curious about the percentage of users who feel that there is a scalability issue with their own repositories. Personally, I don't have any beef with git's scalability at all, even though the companies I worked for had anywhere between hundreds to tens of thousands of engineers. Maybe having a monorepo will lead to scalability problem? But monorepo is a debatable topic, to say the least. > Diversion is built on top of distributed storage and databases, accessible via REST API, and runs on serverless cloud infrastructure. Every repository operation is an API call (commit, branch, merge etc.). The desktop client synchronizes all work in progress to the cloud in real time Again, how does this have to do with me, a user? Why would I care about the underlying protocols when I simply use a CLI or a UI?

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Hi Everyone! We’re Sasha and Egal, co-founders of Diversion ( https://diversion.dev ). We’re building a modern, cloud-native version control. Our first users are game developers, who like its simplicity and scalability. See a quick demo here: https://youtu.be/DD0XkL8kDYc Why a new VCS? There is no doubt that Git vastly improved our lives, and played a significant role in the advancement of software development over the past 18 years. But - it was built for a very different world in 2005 (slow networks, much smaller projects, no cloud), and is not the perfect tool for everyone today. The biggest drawback of Git is its limited scalability - both in repository and file sizes, and the number of concurrent users. This is the reason Google and Meta built their own version control systems. It’s also the reason why other large companies, most notably in games development, semiconductors and fin…

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Monorepos are indeed causing problems with git, and this is one of the main arguments against them (see [1]). Some companies are building their own solutions (Google, Meta), and some are splitting their monorepos because of these problems. IMO if a company wants to run a monorepo for their reasons, they shouldn't be limited by their VCS. The technical details are for the readers who want to know, I agree it's not really important for the users (most of them, at least). [1] https://medium.com/@mattklein123/monorepos-please-dont-e9a27...

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Re: scalability, in the very first sentence they mention game development, which deals with large quantities of large (and growing), nowadays versioned assets like 3D models, textures, animations, etc.

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