That’s very good. Once I wanted to compile Firefox myself for some reason I no longer remember, but their Mercurial-based system was a hassle to work with. Most of us are already familiar with git. So, I know I’m going to be more inclined to make code contributions now that it uses git.
Just wish they could’ve chosen another git-based option like Codeberg, or even an internally-hosted server. I’m rather wary of GitHub/Microsoft swallowing up so many open source projects.
For a complicated project I get it, github’s PR system is kind of bad (horrible branch based workflow and no stacked diff support resulting in increased churn) compared to the alternatives.
That’s why we have tools like Graphite to add stacked diff support on top of github, and other devs creating new VCSs because git still hasn’t made it’s interactive rebase and merge conflicts easy enough to handle for juniors and it should be simpler.
That’s very good. Once I wanted to compile Firefox myself for some reason I no longer remember, but their Mercurial-based system was a hassle to work with. Most of us are already familiar with git. So, I know I’m going to be more inclined to make code contributions now that it uses git.
Just wish they could’ve chosen another git-based option like Codeberg, or even an internally-hosted server. I’m rather wary of GitHub/Microsoft swallowing up so many open source projects.
Inertia’s a bitch, and they started before git existed. It was a dark time.
Seems that they’re not accepting pull-requests via GitHub, which is a bit of shame.
For a complicated project I get it, github’s PR system is kind of bad (horrible branch based workflow and no stacked diff support resulting in increased churn) compared to the alternatives.
That’s why we have tools like Graphite to add stacked diff support on top of github, and other devs creating new VCSs because git still hasn’t made it’s interactive rebase and merge conflicts easy enough to handle for juniors and it should be simpler.