Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git

Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by hannob on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:52AM (#38161900)

Last time I checked every alternative to Git was lacking some major feature that would immediately make it a non-alternative to me. (And I wouldn't even remotely call myself a Git power user.)

For Mercurial, that was shallow clones. I haven't looked at it in a while, but a quick googling shows me a wiki page where they discuss how an implementation could look like, and it hasn't been updated since 2015.

Network effects are certainly a reason git is popular. But also: If you want to challenge git, you should be able to compete with its basic features.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by giraffe_lady on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:04AM (#38162055)

Fossil?

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:12AM (#38164468)

no rebase, which for me is perfectly ok as I agree with the creator of Fossil wrt rebase.

But it's definitely missing git's rebase :)

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by failingslowly on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:31AM (#38163053)

Any of the non-distributed version control systems? /only ever so slightly s

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by klodolph on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:14AM (#38164505)

Yeah.

My workflow in Git centers on the index, and making lots of commits on local branches that will never get pushed. I spend a day working, rewrite history, stash a bunch of unrelated changes on temporary branches, and then send a couple commits on the main branch for code review.

When I used Mercurial for work, it felt surreal to have all of those weird little workflows get locked away behind plugins. I get how Mercurial is way easier for people starting out, and I also get that I could just use the plugins, but when I use Git, all those history-rewriting tools are right there where I want them.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by quleap on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:50PM (#38279821)

Mercurial, with its changeset evolution and phase management, is gazillions times more powerful than Git in terms of history rewriting.

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by mtmmtm on Monday November 06, 2023 @03:23PM (#38168427)

bzr is superior to git in most ways. The only problem is that it is not used by many people today.

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