For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.

  • We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando
  • Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time
  • We’re still working through the planning stages, but we’re expecting at least six months before the migration begins
  • @MajorHavoc
    43•1 year ago

    Some amusing context (as a big Mercurial fan, myself):

    According to the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Mercurial is the 4th most popular response, beaten only by Git, Subversion, and “I don’t use version control”.

    Git was roughly 94x as popular as Mercurial.

    “I don’t use version control.” was a bit more than 4x as popular as Mercurial.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      The fact that people still use Subversion is the real crime.

      • @merthyr1831
        3•1 year ago

        Unreal engine basically requires it for decent version control iirc. i had a nightmare trying to get git to work on my university project a few years back

        • @RockHornet
          1•1 year ago

          It’s Perforce I think, not svn.

    • @[email protected]
      13•1 year ago

      I don’t use version control

      Well that’s a bummer. I guess some people love to live on the edge.

      • @FooBarrington
        3•1 year ago

        My version control strategy is the same as my birth control one: if things start to go bad, pull the plug