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		steveklabnik 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Stacked PRs Yes, the server is based on Perforce, called Piper, but the CLI is based on mercurial. So locally you're doing hg and then when you create a CL, it translates it into what p4 needs.

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surajrmal 3 days ago [–]

Depends on what frontend tool you use. You can use either. These days you can also use jj. I'm not sure the backend resembles peforce any longer.

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