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
As someone who’s too young to have used anything but git, it’s kinda sad that it seems I’ll never get to use anything else
Be the change you want to see. Start an open source project using mercurial. Host it somewhere here
There are very good reasons why Git prevailed. The previous generation of SCMs were terrible. Most of the ones that came around the same time as Git (distributed SCMs) got lots of things wrong. Git is complex but it’s flexible, it doesn’t try to force any particular way of doing things on you, which means you can make it work with any flow you can think of.
I forgot what it was but I used something else trust me you don’t want to use that.
It’s a rather unpopular idea on lemmy, but sometimes a monopoly is good thing. git having a monopoly in version control is a good thing
Nothing in tech stands still. If you want a glimpse of a possible alternative future check out Pijul. And I don’t know an example off-hand but the idea of doing version control on ASTs of program code rather than flat text is an interesting concept that hasn’t taken off yet.
Git seems to have reached a status of “good enough” to the point where it will probably stand still for quite a while. There just isn’t anything that offers benefit significant enough to justify the bother of switching (that I’ve seen so far, I’ve seen pijul before).
Plenty of things do stand still. We’re still stuck on qwerty keyboards for english.
Just find yourself an antiquated Microsoft aligned company and maybe you’ll get to taste the bitter fruit that is TFVC. I use it daily and it’s… Different.
