Why Git and Github are a terrible choice for most dev teams

Tomas Vykruta
6 min readAug 22, 2019

I recently left Google — after an 8.5 year career, excited to adopt Git and Github for my new company DeepFraud AI. I am shocked at how awful Git is.

Let’s take a quick look at Google’s repository

  • over a billion files
  • millions of projects
  • over forty thousands engineers
  • tens of thousands of commits daily
  • many millions of commits annually
Tomas Vykruta

CEO/Co-Founder of EvolutionIQ (previously: Artificial Intelligence research/development at Google)