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> and there are still those of us who actually use Mercurial

I'm certainly in that camp; and it pains me every time I have to use the hggit extension to convert a mercurial repo to git in order to work with everyone else...

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Yeah, we should give a shout-out to the octobus folks for making heptapod, a Gitlab fork bringing support for mercurial repos. That brings at least one mainstream hosting option for hg repos.

Absolutely. I guess most of us have a bunch of repos which are personal anyway which are just as easily "hosted" as Mercurial repos. I.e. if I have ssh access to a machine, "hosting" a remote Mercurial repo with

    hg init

instead of

    git init --bare

does not matter to much..

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