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Claude Merged 30,401 Changes in One Day. Git Couldn't Keep Up.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/claude-merged-30401-changes-in-one-day-git-couldnt-keep-up. Anthropic swapped git for Scion after Claude hit 30,401 merges a day. A new worktree fell from 7.1 minutes to 5.1 seconds. Here’s the full workflow. Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #anthropic, #claude, #anthropic-scion, #git, #version-control, #source-control, #ai-agents, #monorepo, and more. This story was written by: @sidrazafar. Learn more about this writer by checking @sidrazafar's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Anthropic moved its monorepo off git and onto Scion, a server-first version control system built by seven engineers in five months. Here's how Claude now takes a change from a blank worktree to main, step by step, and why a new worktree that used to take 7.1 minutes now takes 5.1 seconds.

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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/claude-merged-30401-changes-in-one-day-git-couldnt-keep-up.
Anthropic swapped git for Scion after Claude hit 30,401 merges a day. A new worktree fell from 7.1 minutes to 5.1 seconds. Here’s the full workflow.
Check more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories. You can also check exclusive content about #anthropic, #claude, #anthropic-scion, #git, #version-control, #source-control, #ai-agents, #monorepo, and more.

This story was written by: @sidrazafar. Learn more about this writer by checking @sidrazafar's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.

Anthropic moved its monorepo off git and onto Scion, a server-first version control system built by seven engineers in five months. Here's how Claude now takes a change from a blank worktree to main, step by step, and why a new worktree that used to take 7.1 minutes now takes 5.1 seconds.

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