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date: "2007-04-13T16:08:04Z"
title: Mozilla Switches to Mercurial
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<p><a href="http://mozilla.org/" title="Mozilla description.">Mozilla</a> just <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html" title="picked Mercurial description.">picked Mercurial</a> as it's next-generation
version control system and successor to <acronym title='Concurrent Versioning System'>CVS</acronym>.  The <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html" title="picked Mercurial description.">article</a> has the
details of the elimination process and includes creatively modified
Mortal Kombat screenshots to illustrate key points.</p>