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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by santiagobasulto on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:19AM (#38160363)
Happened the SAME thing to me. Mercurial felt more natural than git. Back then, Github allowed you to choose the VC and Mercurial and Git were available, I'd always choose Mercurial. I was also using Google Code that allowed for mercurial as well.

Ahhhh, thanks for brining back those memories.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by antod on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:33AM (#38160446)
> Github allowed you to choose the VC and Mercurial and Git were available

You're not thinking about BitBucket are you? I thought Github was always git only?

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by pseudalopex on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:53AM (#38160559)
GitHub started with Git and added Subversion. Never Mercurial.
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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by antod on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:01AM (#38160625)
Oh that's right - I'd forgotten about that april fools joke that wasn't. It was just client compatibility right - the backend was still git from memory?

What I mean was that it wasn't like Bitbucket where you chose whether you wanted git or hg for starting your project.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by innocenat on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:20AM (#38160754)
BitBucket was Mercurial-only for quite some times before they added Git (when it was obvious that Git was winning).

I think Google Code provide both from the early day (along with Subversion), and maybe also SourceForge.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by pseudalopex on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:34AM (#38160869)
SourceForge added Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar in 2009. Google Code added Mercurial in 2009. Bitbucket and Google Code added Git in 2011.
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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by jamesdwilson on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:27PM (#38165611)
I've used them all and Bazaar is my fav by far.
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