@emc2 @remmy @0xabad1dea as I understand it, rewriting it was easier than changing the workflow of every engineer in the company and migrating all the infrastructure that had been built on top of it. TBF it did have some genuine quality of life improvements over the original Perforce ("client in the cloud" virtual filesystem etc)
Migration from Perforce to git is pretty painless. I did several such migrations some time back. It's installing a plugin and then running the migration command.
It is certainly less pain than actual *using* Perforce for even a planck unit of time
@emc2 @remmy @0xabad1dea well, the maintainer of Git has been a Google employee since 2010 and they haven't been able to do that. So perhaps not as simple and painless as you might think
