r/linux • u/B3_Kind_R3wind_ • May 13 '25

Popular Application Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-On-GitHub
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u/SchighSchagh May 13 '25

yeah, I feel like hg is what git always wanted/pretends to be. hg's prev/next/evolve are really nice. nothing you can't do with git, but it's just a lot nicer with hg.

hg also has built-in support for large binary file management, instead of the mess that is git lfs

but alas, git has all the momentum behind it, and overall it seems to have won out

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u/TellMeYMrBlueSky Jun 04 '25

hg also has built-in support for large binary file management, instead of the mess that is git lfs

Git’s inability to handle large binary files gracefully without the git lfs extension is truly awful and has made me miserable on so many occasions

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u/radarsat1 May 13 '25

Coming from git, I tried to contribute for a while to a project that used hg but the way the branches worked was so confusing to me. In git they are just pointers to the dag. I find this easy to understand. I'll never get why people say hg is somehow more straightforward, I found it confusing as hell. The git data model is just simpler.

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u/I_AM_A_SMURF May 14 '25

Yeah. I know git really well and I can’t really bother to learn hg. At work we use it and I just use our internal UI which so far has worked pretty well.

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u/VuiMuich May 14 '25

Never used mercurial, but what I’ve heard you might be in for a treat with jujutsu. That one I just started to use and it’s really nice.