On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Andrew McCreight <amccrei...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> I've been using git for years now to develop Firefox, and I feel like it is
> a first class experience. There's a one time cost to setting up cinnabar,
> but after that, everything just works, including |mach try| and |mach
> mozreview|. It is still probably less setup than Mercurial users have to go
> through to install enough extensions to make hg usable. ;) Sure, there's a
> bit of "wacky custom machinery", but developers using hg also have to deal
> with some of that, so that's more of a Firefox developer problem than a git
> Firefox developer problem.


The experience with git-cinnabar has been pretty smooth for me, too. If we
could make the tool update process match the mercurial experience (mach
mercurial-setup -u), it would be great. I was planning to work on this, but
the long-term plans seemed unclear at the time:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1257478

Panos
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