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They use it when multiple people code on the same codebase. It's either in Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket and uses git. I haven't seen someone use anything other
by graphememes 10y ago
They use it when multiple people code on the same codebase. It's either in Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket and uses git.
I haven't seen someone use anything other than git in a long time, and those that do are ancient projects.
- jordigh 10y agoI suppose Firefox is ancient too. They use Mercurial canonically. :-(
- ergo14 10y agoSo does Facebook... My company also uses mercurial - I know plenty of people that prefer it over git - but there is no github equivalent for it.
- paulddraper 10y agoWell obviously you should just be using Chrome.
- Rumudiez 10y agoThis just in: an in-development webapp with WebSockets, Shared Workers, and WebRTC integration turns out to actually be "ancient" because it's being managed with subversion!
- ergo14 10y agoLots of people use and prefer mercurial.
- hashhar 10y agoI learnt git when I started college and then discovered Mercurial when I started contributing to Firefox. It was painful at first but after some really good reading of the Mozilla Version Control Tools docs and the Hg Tutorial by Joel Spolsky and some blogs regarding the Mozilla contribution and coding workflow I started liking Hg better than git. Mercurial has a more sane way of referring to commits and traversing the history. They now also have different kinds of branching models. You can even maintain multiple checkouts of a repo using a single clone which is great and saves me from having to checkout branches when I want to work on another feature. (Imagine checking out 3.5 mn files each time you wanted to change branches). In, my opinion, Mercurial scales better but suffers from the unintuitive names and lack of enough people talking about it.
- gnaritas 10y ago> I haven't seen someone use anything other than git in a long time, and those that do are ancient projects. Then you live in a very small bubble.