I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
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I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
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Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#2Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git.
I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos.
p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand).
[2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#3Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
That’s 2014 vintage. Is it still true?
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#4Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
> I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos.
How come? That seems highly unlikely to me, especially when you consider that one of their larger competitors (Bitbucket) had Mercurial support for a long time and then removed it.
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#5Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
FB/Meta replaced Mercurial with Sapling which is git-compatible: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so...
Mercurial is over.
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#6Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
> I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. How come? That seems highly unlikely to me, especially when you consider that one of their larger competitors (Bitbucket) had Mercurial support for a long time and then removed it.
In fact Bitbucket started as a Mercurial hosting service, then added Git support, then dropped Mercurial.
From when they dropped Mercurial in 2020 [1]:
"Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned by Atlassian, is a web-based version control repository hosting service, for source code and development projects. It has used Mercurial since the beginning in 2008 and then Git since October 2011."
[1] https://hub.packtpub.com/bitbucket-to-no-longer-support-merc...
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#7Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
That’s 2014 vintage. Is it still true?
Yup! In fact Meta’s implementation is open sourced as Sapling SCM and includes both Mercurial and Git support[1]. Internally the main repository use Mercurial although I believe a few legacy projects still use git.
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#8Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
FB/Meta replaced Mercurial with Sapling which is git-compatible: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so... Mercurial is over.
> Mercurial is over.
I mean to be fair so is Firefox
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#9i kind of wonder why there has never been an "hghub", given that i've always liked hg rather than git. but i guess it is the torvalds connection?
Re: I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
#10Interesting, given that Google and Facebook [2], at least, eventually moved to have their repositories offered via Mercurial interface, instead of git. I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos. p.s. And let's not talk about abomination that is GitLFS (starting from the fact that it requires separate subcommand). [2] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-infra/scaling-mer...
That’s 2014 vintage. Is it still true?
Meta uses https://github.com/facebook/sapling see: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so...
It’s an extension from Mercurial as the blog post states.