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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by zilti on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:09AM (#38160300)
"developer mindshare" has become one of the most bullshit reasons to use something.
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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by sshine on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:39AM (#38160482)
For that reason alone, yes.

But not for the reasons that correlate, such as education, tooling.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by j1elo on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:16AM (#38160348)
"developer mindshare" usually equals better or at least more support. Which is not at all a bullshit reason to use something.
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