Is there life outside of Git?
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Companies like Google, Meta, and Anthropic run in-house version control systems instead of Git, mainly because of scale. Google's Piper and Meta's Sapling store billions of lines in a monorepo with access control and on-demand file fetching, while Anthropic's Scion targets agent-driven workflows.
Why it ranked
No. 148 of 155 with a score of 0.56. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.90) and reader interest (0.65), lowest on substantiated (0.39).
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Overview of version control systems (JJ, Piper, Sapling, Anthropic's Scion) relevant to developers; mostly explanatory, with limited primary evidence and some unsourced claims, though it offers useful technical context.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A useful, technically informed overview of JJ, Piper, Sapling, Mononoke, and Anthropic’s Scion, with strong relevance to large-scale repositories and agent development. Evidence is mostly descriptive, and some claims rely on inaccessible links.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.56total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.51
- Reader interest0.65
- Audience breadth0.63
- Practical relevance0.56
- Substantiated0.39
- Technical depth0.63
- New information0.90
- Counts against: Promotional0.07
- Counts against: Overclaim0.21
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.52 | 0.40 | 0.62 | 0.51 | 0.22 | +0.24 | +0.123 |
| Reader interest | 0.49 | 0.60 | 0.86 | 0.65 | 0.37 | +0.26 | +0.169 |
| Audience breadth | 0.72 | 0.60 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.14 | +0.13 | +0.082 |
| Practical relevance | 0.54 | 0.45 | 0.68 | 0.56 | 0.23 | +0.22 | +0.122 |
| Substantiated | 0.28 | 0.35 | 0.54 | 0.39 | 0.26 | +0.05 | +0.019 |
| Technical depth | 0.68 | 0.55 | 0.67 | 0.63 | 0.13 | +0.05 | +0.032 |
| New information | 0.91 | 0.85 | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.08 | +0.05 | +0.045 |
| Promotional | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.07 | −0.19 | −0.014 |
| Overclaim | 0.32 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.21 | 0.20 | −0.11 | −0.023 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.555 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.555 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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Elsewhere
Elsewhere: HN 2 pts, not on front page
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