Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThe SCM ecosystem at Facebook is tremendously powerful and the result of some of the best minds at Facebook working on those systems for many years. From the scaling of the monorepos to the code review workflows, nothing really matches it. The ergonomics of most of the tooling was simply top notch (which it needed to be... engineers, particularly at Meta, are an opinionated lot who don't tolerate poor tools). It's great to see this out in the wild now.
Facebook rewrote Mercurial, while Microsoft has essentially expanded git with their own virtual file system VFSforGit [0] and a bunch of performance improvements. 0 - https://vfsforgit.org/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 766
- Total comments
- 258
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-08 | Facebook Working on GVFS-Like Tool for Git/Mercurial on Mac/Linux | treiss99 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-11-06 | EdenFS is a FUSE virtual filesystem for source control repositories | rox41 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-05-09 | EdenSCM – A cross-platform, scalable source control management systemFirst breakout | imoldfella | 139 | 31 |
| 2022-04-12 | EdenBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 624 | 227 |