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we hired contractors to move us from source gear to git and they said "moving the history would be too hard, so we didn't"

lost probably 10+ years of history

Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.

There are a million files in the Meta monorepo starting with FB. I don't think they even changed the practice.

You see, the “fb” in fbcode stands for “fierce & beautiful”.

“Fast Breaking”

facepalm