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→cinnabar-less Git(Hub) gecko-dev support: git support
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=== Intent-to-land === | === Intent-to-land === | ||
=== cinnabar-less Git | === Vanilla (cinnabar-less) Git support === | ||
git-cinnabar was created to allow developers to use Git to interact with Mercurial, mainly [https://hg.mozilla.org]. It has some downsides, however, such as being a bit tricky to install. Ideally developers would be able to use vanilla Git to contribute to Firefox. | git-cinnabar was created to allow developers to use Git to interact with Mercurial, mainly [https://hg.mozilla.org|hg.mozilla.org]. It has some downsides, however, such as being a bit tricky to install. Ideally developers would be able to use vanilla Git to contribute to Firefox. | ||
If we view Phabricator and Lando as a conduit to getting code into mozilla-central, then ultimately VCS clients would only need to talk to Phabricator. Phabricator natively supports both Mercurial and Git< | If we view Phabricator and Lando as a conduit to getting code into mozilla-central, then ultimately VCS clients would only need to talk to Phabricator. Phabricator natively supports both Mercurial and Git<sup>[[#vcs-parent-note|1]]</sup>, and full Lando support means that developers will not need to talk to hg.mozilla.org directly. We just need to ensure that the user experience of submitting a patch in progress to Try remains as straightforward as it is today. | ||
Impact: | |||
* No need to maintain nor educate people on git-cinnabar. | |||
* End to unproductive VCS debates. | |||
* Solidifies Phabricator-Lando as the conduit to hg.mozilla.org; this consolidation will make it easier to add more services and automation to the commit pipeline. | |||
<div id="vcs-parent-note><small> | |||
1. There is one wrinkle in supporting two VCSes for the same repository: like figuring out parent commits when a different VCS is used to pull down commits; see {{bug|1443375}} for how this was solved with git-cinnabar.</small></div> | |||
=== Lando headless client API support === | === Lando headless client API support === | ||