Building Windows: 4 million commits, 10 million work items

Building Windows: 4 million commits, 10 million work items

  • March 13, 2018
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Building Windows: 4 million commits, 10 million work items

Microsoft’s switch to using Git as the version control system for Windows’ development has resulted in many challenges. Git wasn’t really built for a 300GB repository with 3.5 million files, and the engineering effort to make Git scale in this way continues.

Source: arstechnica.com

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