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Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.

  • We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando
  • Although we'll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time
  • We're still working through the planning stages, but we're expecting at least six months before the migration begins
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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mercurial had a nice UI on messy internals. Git had an initially not quite that nice UI on solid internals. It is obvious why Git won in the end.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gits UI is still terrible.

The reason it is popular is because it is the VCS of the Linux kernel and github became the defacto open source social media site.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

You have got that backwards. Github became popular because git was popular. Nobody forced people to use it and which VCS the Linux kernel uses barely matters to anyone not working on it.

The truth is that a "nice" UI that doesn't allow you to know what actually happens because the internals are hard to understand is hard to trust with your code history that you still want to access 20 years later. Git is popular for the same reason Markdown, Textile,... are popular among programmers over WYSIWIG style rich text programs like Word.