IT之家 News on October 15: The US artificial intelligence company Anthropic recently announced that it is abandoning Git in favor of its in-house version control system Scion, moving most source code management operations to servers to reduce the data that agents and automated tasks need to download.
Anthropic said that in May (the 5th month), the company merged an average of 2500 code changes per day; by September (the 9th month), this figure had already exceeded 30,000, and Git could no longer meet the demand,which is why the company chose to develop the Scion system in-house。
Anthropic claims thatScion's CPU and memory consumption is only one two-hundredth of Git's. After switching systems, code checkout operations for CI and research tasks take only a few seconds instead of the previous several minutes.
IT之家 has learned that Scion executes operations such as commits, merges, rebases, and file history queries on the server side, while the client is responsible for tracking local modifications, managing files, and maintaining a limited cache, without needing to store enough repository data to perform those operations independently.
Anthropic said thatmost of their clients are agents that remain online at all times，so Git's offline support offers no advantage. Centralizing operations on the server side can reduce local storage requirements and synchronization overhead. Of course, it would also be difficult for other companies to adopt this approach, because it requires accompanying customized code review, search, and CI tools.