• finalaccountforreal@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    17 hours ago

    It’s sad that an entity the importance and the size of Mozilla chose GitHub over self-hosting. It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.

    • dyc3@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      14 hours ago

      They aren’t moving, it’s a code mirror. Everyone seems to be misreporting this. There’s a GitHub action to auto close PRs.

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        14 hours ago

        It’s not a mirror. It’s the primary repository. And yes unfortunately they aren’t accepting PRs or using it for issue tracking, but it’s a start.

    • drspod@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      16 hours ago

      It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.

      What?

        • drspod@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          14 hours ago

          Dead? They just had a major version update 1 month ago and the last minor release was 1 week ago.

          What does Facebook using it have to do with anything?

          • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            2 hours ago

            Dead as in essentially nobody uses it. Apparently it’s used even less than SVN, which sounds kind of crazy. Doesn’t stop them developing it if they want I guess.

            Facebook is relevant because they were one of the last major users of Mercurial and were big contributors to it. They’ve moved to their own VCS Sapling now though.