Sapling SCM is a cross-platform, highly scalable, Git-compatible source control system.
It aims to provide both user-friendly and powerful interfaces for users, as well as extreme scalability to deal with repositories containing many millions of files and many millions of commits.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- The Sapling client: The client-side sl command line and web interface for users to interact with Sapling SCM. It was originally based on Mercurial.
- Mononoke: A highly scalable distributed source control server. Not yet supported publicly, OSS is buildable for unsupported experimentation.
- EdenFS: A virtual filesystem for efficiently checking out large repositories. While it is used in production within Meta it is not yet supported for external usage. OSS builds in GitHub Actions are available for unsupported experimentation. EdenFS speeds up operations in large repositories by only populating working directory files on demand, as they are accessed. This makes operations like
checkoutmuch faster, in exchange for a small performance hit when first accessing new files. This is quite beneficial in large repositories where developers often only work with a small subset of the repository at a time.
Website: sapling-scm.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Meta Platforms, Inc.
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Sapling is written in Rust and Python. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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