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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by geraldwhen on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:50AM (#38160973)
Younguns may forget or never have experienced branching an svn repo. It used to literally take hours.

Then git-svn was born, and you could branch instantly. This was such an obvious improvement that all future repos moved to git.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by tatersolid on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:43PM (#38180999)
Branching in SVN was always nearly instant (just adding a new “copy from source path/rev” pointer commit).

Merging in SVN on the other hand…

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