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Any chance you can support Mercurial? There was a highly voted issue that I saw sometime back.

Gitlab might have the resources to properly support multiple vcs' - but even though I personally prefer mercurial (ui, reasonable large-file support) - I'm not sure it would be a good idea. Trac (trac.edgewall.org) did a lot of feature-experimentation -- and I think one take-away is that being an effective workflow support tool and supporting (even subtly) different back-ends with accompanying different best-practices/patterns (eg: git sub modules) is hard.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

If you're looking for Mercurial try out RhodeCode, it support all the Mercurial specific workflows like phases etc.

RhodeCode actually supports Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.

Is Rhodecode completely open source like Kallithea?

No, Kallithea is an fork of older code base of RhodeCode. RhodeCode source code is not open, but it's free up to 25 users

There's a big difference between Kallithea and RhodeCode. Kallithea development is stale, and there's not a lot of things going on in this project.

RhodeCode is adding new features constantly, and the project is really active.

Consider reading http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html for more background.

We'll not support Mercurial, this would be an additional layer of indirection and limit us to features that are supported in both Git and Mercurial.

Maybe just support hg-git? All someone has to do is write some tests for Gitlab, and then you are all set?

Interesting, feel free to make a detailed technical feature proposal on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues and mention me.

hg-git already works with gitlab, doesn't it?

I was having problems even cloning using hg-git + ssh.

There's no real limitations on making the two VC system compatible, that's why RhodeCode has same functionality for both Git and Mercurial, without making tradeoffs, that's why systems like hg-git could also work out quite well.

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