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firefox development has been moved from mercurial to git since early november of 2023 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Going-Git https://www.phoronix.com/

• swiftcoder 1y ago
  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.
  • dgoldstein0 1y ago
    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
    • arp242 1y ago
      They had a release just a few days ago. It's definitely not abandonware.
    • swiftcoder 1y ago
      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.
      • arp242 1y ago
        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 https://github.com/facebook/sapling, and it seems that's what they're using now?
        • swiftcoder 1y ago
          I don't know for sure today, but Sapling was mercurial-compatible, at least early in development.
  • Kuinox 1y ago
    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.