Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git

Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by Banditoz on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:07AM (#38160283)

Are they losing contributors, though? I like GitHub/Gitlab/BitBucket as much as most people but choice of version control is going to be secondary to getting your patch into a major web browser in my opinion.

Also looks like they're still planning on using existing review tools:

> 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

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by lloydatkinson on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:11AM (#38160312)

I’ve not met anyone that claimed to like BitBucket!

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by mapasj on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:35AM (#38160455)

I have been quite happy with BitBucket. This is mostly from a UX perspective. The design is clean and simple. I’m using GitLab lately too, and my experience is the opposite. I can’t think of any webapp with a worse UX.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by Banditoz on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:12AM (#38160323)

Lol, only reason I don't mind it is my company's self-hosted instance is extremely snappy compared to SaaS GitHub/Gitlab. But it's getting behind in features. Wish it had multiline comments/suggestions.

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