• drspod@lemmy.ml
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      18 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?

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        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.

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          What’s the actual argument here? If Mercurial satisfies/satisfied the development team, then they should use it. I don’t find this crazy. Like others pointed out, it’s not like Mercurial was a dead project without maintenance.

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          Apparently it’s used even less than SVN,

          Going to need a source for this.