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manifoldgeo | 6 months ago

Mozilla still uses Mercurial for Firefox development [0]. They're in the process of moving to git and GitHub [1]. I don't know the status of the move, but I contributed a bit to Firefox's build system via Mercurial, and I am glad to see they're moving to git since it's the industry standard. Mercurial felt so alien when I was using it. Git has its own share of UX problems, but finding support for Mercurial was much harder for me, precisely because nobody really uses it anymore.

References:

0: https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/

1: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/Qnfy...

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arp242|6 months ago

Previous: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969827 - May 2025 (468 comments)

According to the top comment, hg is synced from git (rather than the other way around), and they basically finished the migration AFAIK, with some compatibility/legacy hg stuff for the time being.