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Bitbucket deleting Mercurial repos June 1

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Saw Graham Dumpleton's twitter https://twitter.com/GrahamDumpleton/status/1251815399848439810

and I had no idea this was a thing: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket

>After much consideration, we've decided to remove Mercurial support from Bitbucket Cloud and its API. Mercurial features and repositories will be officially removed from Bitbucket and its API on June 1, 2020.

Unlike with code.google.com's shutdown and transition to long term archive, there's no archiving happening on the part of Bitbucket. Once June 1 hits, all repos are gone unless the project maintainers have migrated somewhere else.

Makes me wonder how many Python libs and projects will be affected? Passlib at https://pypi.org/project/passlib/ is one such lib. How many others are there?

Bitbucket is trash.

I recently lost access to all of my repositories because when I tried to sign in, it corralled me to create a new "Bitbucket Cloud" account instead of letting me use my regular one. Except it didn't "upgrade" my account, it created a totally new one with the same email address. So now there's no email address associated with my original one.

Yikes!

Wow, thanks for the info. It's a shame they don't provide a read only mirror or a big archive of all the repos. Even today, on 2020,I still stumble upon some Google code repositories that I'm Glas are kept archived.

Agreed, I think straight deletion is pretty irresponsible, but it was possible to see this kind of thing on the horizon since the sale to Atlassian. It's good to know how seriously they take the custodianship of potentially extremely important resources.

Maybe help out with archiveteam.org https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Bitbucket

I have moved to helixteamhub.cloud . Anyone else who still prefers mercurial to git have a preference for hosting?

Heptapod has forked Gitlab to use mercurial instead of git https://about.heptapod.host

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