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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by bdd8f1df777b on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:01AM (#38161033)
Not abandoned. Both Facebook and Google internally use Mercurial as one of the version control systems. They will keep the Mercurial project alive.
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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by godzillabrennus on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:43AM (#38161832)
Explaining in a nutshell why mainframes are still in use and COBOL has market demand.
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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by progbits on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:08AM (#38162108)
See sibling comment linking to https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

I expect google to switch to that.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by aseipp on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:48PM (#38170260)
Facebook uses a heavily modified fork of Mercurial which they have (as of last year) released publicly, and now refer to it by a new name, "Sapling" (though the command may still be called 'hg' internally). And Sapling actually stores data using Git's on-disk format, along with an entirely bespoke server-side backend. It is an entirely different project from Mercurial, now.
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