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Not abandoned. Both Facebook and Google internally use Mercurial as one of the version control systems. They will keep the Mercurial project alive.
by bdd8f1df777b 3y ago
Not abandoned. Both Facebook and Google internally use Mercurial as one of the version control systems. They will keep the Mercurial project alive.
- godzillabrennus 3y agoExplaining in a nutshell why mainframes are still in use and COBOL has market demand.
- progbits 3y agoSee sibling comment linking to https://github.com/martinvonz/jj https://github.com/martinvonz/jj I expect google to switch to that.
- aseipp 3y agoFacebook uses a heavily modified fork of Mercurial which they have (as of last year) released publicly, and now refer to it by a new name, "Sapling" (though the command may still be called 'hg' internally). And Sapling actually stores data using Git's on-disk format, along with an entirely bespoke server-side backend. It is an entirely different project from Mercurial, now.