undefined | Better HN

0 pointscmrdporcupine10y ago0 comments

I don't think I'm leaking anything by saying that that article about Google is incorrect. Mercurial isn't used at Google, not anywhere I've seen. Probably that article has something to do with the now-defunct Google Code site, which did in fact use Mercurial.

0 comments

jordigh10y ago

Google devs are working (with some help from Facebook) on getting hg into Google, but they're not there yet. Look at all the work that Google has been putting into hg. It's not purely out of the goodness of their hearts:

https://selenic.com/hg/log?rev=@google.com&revcount=200

I always see a lot of Google and Facebook at the Mercurial sprints.

cmrdporcupineOP10y ago

I can't comment on what Google might be doing in the future with RCS. Well, I can't comment but also don't know. I personally like hg.

But if I were to take a poll of the informed and opinionated engineers sitting around me, they would almost all likely take git over hg.

In any case, git is in actual widespread use _now_ at Google, for Android and Chrome, and other open source stuff (some of which was moved recently from code.google.com to github).

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse