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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by kyrra on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:32AM (#20746163)
Google contributes to Mercurial as well.
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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by zhengyi13 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:44PM (#20751152)
As do Facebook, if I recall correctly:

https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-fa...

That's from 2014, but I don't believe they've moved away from it since. In 2018, there's this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16565299

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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by dragonsh on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:40AM (#20746241)
I didn't know that, I thought Google is using customised perforce and later moved to Piper for their mono repository. I do not know if Piper still use some parts of mercurial or is based on mercurial. But it's good to know Google is supporting mercurial.
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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by durin42 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:13AM (#20746576)
Piper still exists, but Mercurial is a viable client tool to interact with Piper's version history.
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