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Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub by NexRebular on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:34AM (#43970472)
It really is a tragedy that git monoculture is winning over Mercurial, Fossil and other better designed alternatives. Don't even have a nice github-like service for Mercurial anymore as Bitbucket decided to give up.
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Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub by 1wd on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:18AM (#43971061)
heptapod is GitLab with Mercurial support.
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Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub by NexRebular on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:18AM (#43971391)
Which I used until they stopped releasing prebuilt packages without subscription.
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Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub by int_19h on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:35AM (#43971178)
This happened mostly because the benefits of those other tools over git are so marginal that they don't provide a strong motivation to pick them over git unless everything else is equal. With GitHub in the picture, everything else is not equal, and so...
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Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub by BeetleB on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:12AM (#43973199)
I had been chronically depressed with Mercurial's decline, but now at least jj gives me hope for sanity:

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

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