47: Sapling - A scalable, user-friendly source control system

Meta Tech Podcast

Confused by the syntax of git’s rebase command? Overwhelmed with branch management? Check out Meta’s new git-compatible source control management system Sapling. Durham and Michael, two of the architects behind the recent open-source release, join Pascal on the podcast to discuss their plans for the project, how it was possible to extract one small part of Meta’s large SCM codebase and what the differences between Sapling, git and Mercurial are.

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Links:

• Sapling: https://sapling-scm.com/
• Review Stack: https://reviewstack.dev/

Timestamps:

• Intro 0:06
• Durham and Michael Intro 1:18
• What is Sapling? 2:56
• git Compatibility 3:48
• What's Available Today? 5:28
• Sapling vs git 7:28
• Branching Models 10:20
• Stacks 13:09
• Stacks and GitHub 17:28
• Scaling Sapling 22:25
• Extracting Sapling for Open Source 29:32
• What's Next for Sapling 34:22
• Outro 39:07
• Bloopers 40:00