I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by loeg on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:27PM (#38374714)

The day-to-day workflow at Meta is still using the hg frontend and regular hg commands. I would love to see the git frontend used instead, but, it hasn't happened yet.

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by Kilenaitor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:11AM (#38374973)

I've switched over to using `sl` commands. Sapling is installed on ODs by default. Main change I had to get used to was `up(date)` became `goto`.

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by loeg on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:20AM (#38375020)

I don't want to learn a 3rd thing that isn't git!

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by cozzyd on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:37AM (#38376140)

I assume this is a different sl than https://man.cx/sl(6)

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by mrweasel on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:42AM (#38376176)

While the real sl (Steam Locomotive) isn't installed on that many systems, I can only imagine the annoyance that it must bring to any former Facebook engineers when they assume that it's the version control

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Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla by cozzyd on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:52AM (#38376257)

I wonder how many typoed invocations of ls correspond to sl commands. Like if you have an update directory.

Although now that I think about it, if hg had displayed a steam locomotive, maybe people wouldn't have noticed how slow it was...

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