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		sideshowb on Nov 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Gi... Nitpick, but that quote doesn't explain why not move to mercurial (although I think we all know why)

pointlessone on Nov 6, 2023 [–]

It was Mercurial-only for a long time. Then people got used to git and asked for a mirror to stop dealing with whatever was the layer providing mercurial access for git locally. Apparently, now there are more git people out there than Mercurial.

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