… the Wowza feature of git
tl;dr
Wowza! I found the killer feature in git - you can have your cake and eat it, too!
Every time I’ve had to move to a new VCS, there’s never been enough time available to move the complete history correctly. Linux had this problem in spades when they moved off BitKeeper onto git in a very-short-time.
The solution? Take your time to convert the history correctly (or not, you can correct later), then allow developers who want it to prepend it on their machines, without making their repo operate any differently from the latest one.
Read on for more about replace/graft feature.
Releng As Is - January 2012
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Where we are in January 2012
The purpose of this post is to present a very high level picture of the current Firefox build & release process as a set of requirements. Some of these services are provided or supported by groups outside of releng (particularly it & webdev). This diagram will be useful in understanding the impact of changes.