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Re: Core statement on version control systems



On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 01:29, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Bitbucket was started in 2008 offering Mercurial-only hosting; in 2011
> they added support for Git; but then in 2020, they abruptly removed
> Mercurial support on a very short notice, citing a StackOverflow
> survey of Mercurial usage of "about 3%" compared to "almost 90%" for
> Git.

It was announced in August 2019, although my personal recollection is
one could see the writing on the wall well before that.

> 2. Mozilla.  I was trying to find a confirmation that they're actually
> still using Mercurial to this day, but their 2025 website only has a
> "Careers" and "Products" Download sections; I double-checked I was on
> the dot-org version of their website, and not the dot-com, but, alas,
> there's no links to the code, Mercurial or not...  Oh, well.

start here, and work your way up:

$ hg pull
pulling from https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss

(now I just need to remember what to type next)


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