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The Sober Build Engineer

Personal blog · soberbuildengineer.com/blogprogramming

The Sober Build Engineer is a personal blog at soberbuildengineer.com about programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2011–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters cite this blog's 2006-2007 posts on Mozilla's version control as sources for why Git was rejected and why Mercurial was adopted, with the history of CVS imports and Windows support.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. kbrosnan · 2023-11-06
    Git did not run on Windows when Mozilla moved. Git on Windows required running Cygwin was prone to breaking on Cygwin and was slow. This was a pretty big dealbreaker for Mozilla. The imports of Mozilla's ~10 years of CVS dev via the version control's import tool was fragile and none of them imported cleanly without patches. https://soberbuildengineer.com/blog/2007/04/version-control-... https://soberbuildengineer.co…

    Comment linking /blog/2006/11/version-control-system-shootout-redux/index.html

    on “Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git”
  2. RyanGWU82 · 2013-07-14

    Submitted The Cost of Unpaid Experience as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. kbrosnan · 2023-11-22
    Tracking down preed, JST, joduin, bsmedberg, etc might turn up stories. Some of it is captured by preed in https://soberbuildengineer.com/blog/2006/11/version-control-... and announcing hg in https://soberbuildengineer.com/blog/2007/04/version-control-... JST post on bzr vs hg perf, https://web.archive.org/web/20070219012211/http://weblogs.mo...

    Comment linking /blog/2007/04/version-control-system-shootout-redux-redux/index.html

    on “I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla”
  4. vgnet · 2012-05-02

    Submitted Version Numbers: Still Mattering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. vgnet · 2012-04-25

    Submitted The Cost of Style Over Substance as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. blumentopf · 2011-07-20

    Submitted It All Ends Here as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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