This is disappointing. Bitbucket is the premier place to host free private mercurial repos. Just look at the hosting page on the mercurial website. There is literally not a single other place for free private hosting. There may be some smaller ones out there I'm not aware of.

Hacker news, question: Have you ever tried mercurial? Don't you like to save keystrokes? Isn't `hg com` easier than `git commit`? Isn't `hg pul` easier than `git pull`?

Is there any way to shorten the amount of keystrokes to use git?