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Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (22 children)

Sad to see they only use MS GitHub instead of selfhosting something like GitLab. Just another vendor lock-in.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Honest question - is GitLab really that different of a vendor lock-in over GitHub?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Gitlab can be self-hosted. GitHub is a cloud-only service.

So they could do git.mozilla.com and it would be their own instance of git, on their own hardware (or, probably, from their own AWS account). They control it entirely.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

They did host a git server at git.mozilla.org, but took it down years ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1277297

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