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Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git (groups.google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think the trouble is when users start committing to git, they can't really be mirrors because each one needs to combine the inputs from both. A mirror would be just a copy of one to the other, this is a constant merging exercise which requires significantly more effort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Downvotes without explanation as to why they think that doesn't make sense.