That's interesting. I knew the history of Visual SourceSafe, but hadn't heard about Source Depot. That explains a lot of obscure comments I got from Softies when I was talking to them in 1999 for the SourceSafe book.
I think it's interesting they needed to build an entirely new virtual file system for their source code repo, while I can rebuild the Linux kernel on my own dinky i5 laptop. On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting article on Microsoft's transition to Git as the source > control system for building Windows. > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/ > 3.5M files, 300GB repo. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4ujpzcg1cp9_6cnja0-8vta7a_dz779dl4gm+yywq-...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
