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Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the bigger-and-better dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in February, Microsoft made the surprising announcement that the Windows development team was going to move to using the open source Git version control system for Windows development. A little over three months after that first revelation, and about 90 percent of the Windows engineering team has made the switch. The Windows repository now has about 4,400 active branches, with 8,500 code pushes made per day and 6,600 code reviews each day. An astonishing 1,760 different Windows builds are made every single day -- more than even the most excitable Windows Insider can handle.

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  1. Re: What were they using before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Visual Source Safe.

  2. Re:Linus Wins Again by chispito · · Score: 5, Funny

    When history is written, Linus's inspiration will shine forth from the Pantheon of greats.

    And those historians should take caution, lest they call his operating system "Linux" and are forevermore haunted by Stallman's ghost.

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    The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
  3. Re: In Awe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Thanks you fucking moron!

    -Linus

  4. Re:VSS ? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did they stop using Visual Source Safe ?

    Microsoft Visual SourceSafe was first released in 1994, so by my estimate they stopped using it in 1994.

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    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
  5. Something's wrong by Drunkulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I ran a git pull origin master, which seemed to work fine, but now I have a bunch of code that's copyright 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation?

  6. Re: Linus Wins Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    He helped create the perpetual year of the windows desktop

  7. Re:Distributed Hg. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    git's interface wasn't "designed" at all, and it shows badly. That's why there's almost one tutorial on the web per person who figured out how to use it.

    The article summary also leaves out the minor point that MS had to write an entire abstraction layer underneath Git because it's so incapable of handling a large repository. And yes, there are actually good reasons to have a "monolithic" repository. Just because your favorite version control system can't do something doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

  8. Re:Linus Wins Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stallman's not dead, he just smells that way.

  9. Re: Linus Wins Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We know already Richard, we know. Go finish Hurd, then maybe you can stop being so bitter.