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meichthys
Strollin' around
Status: New idea

Using git would likely increase the number of community contributions since most developers know git.

Having to learn Mercurial is a barrier to entry (although not insurmountable, is enough to put off new potential contributors).

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

simon
Employee
Employee

The git cinnabar integration seems to work really well for me. Did you have any specific issues?

Anonymous
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python3 bootstrap.py --vcs=git

OP, you might want to take another look here:

 https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.html

Hope this info helps.

meichthys
Strollin' around

Thanks @simon. I'll take a look. There seems to be limitations, but it should be enough to get me started👍