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848 points thefilmore | 7 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 2.579s | source | bottom
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CorrectHorseBat ◴[13 May 25 05:48 UTC] No.43969915[source]▶
So they moved from hg to git? Or is this just an official mirror
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shit_game ◴[13 May 25 05:49 UTC] No.43969921[source]▶
firefox development has been moved from mercurial to git since early november of 2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Going-Git

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1. swiftcoder ◴[13 May 25 06:05 UTC] No.43969989[source]▶
Interesting that their issues are blamed on "dual SCM", not on Mercurial itself. I guess just the weight of contributors expecting Git as the default is sinking the big Mercurial projects these days.
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2. dgoldstein0 ◴[13 May 25 06:52 UTC] No.43970215[source]▶
Isn't mercurial abandonware? Or maybe I'm just remembering that gitlab dropped support. If it's not dead yet seems to be getting there
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3. Kuinox ◴[13 May 25 06:53 UTC] No.43970217[source]▶
I tried to contribute a few years ago. The mercurial clone was taking multiple hours. They already had an non official git, which took 15 minutes to clone.
4. arp242 ◴[13 May 25 07:55 UTC] No.43970570[source]▶
They had a release just a few days ago. It's definitely not abandonware.
5. swiftcoder ◴[13 May 25 08:42 UTC] No.43970843[source]▶
It’s still used by Meta, at any rate (albeit a very scaled version thereof). Meta picked it for their monorepo when Linus wasn’t willing to play ball on extending Git for their use case.
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6. arp242 ◴[13 May 25 08:43 UTC] No.43970853{3}[source]▶
Is it still used there? I know they did in the past, but reading up a bit on the background on all of this I found https://github.com/facebook/sapling, and it seems that's what they're using now?
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7. swiftcoder ◴[14 May 25 10:03 UTC] No.43982736{4}[source]▶
I don't know for sure today, but Sapling was mercurial-compatible, at least early in development.