sourcetree (MacOS) and mercurial problems

[Norman Gray]

Uwe, hello.

On 13 Apr 2022, at 20:20, Uwe Brauer wrote:

>> It originates from Atlassian, and I think they stopped
>> showing it much love around the time they dropped Mercurial support
>> from Bitbucket.
>
>  Don't remind me about this painful decision, it left basically one free
>  mercurial repository, helix.

Is that <https://www.perforce.com/hth/mercurial-hosting>?

Two others I'm aware of are Sourcehut <https://sourcehut.org> and Heptapod <https://heptapod.net>; I don't know if you would exclude them from consideration.

Sourcehut is currently a pay-what-you-want service (so right now free-as-in-beer, only, though they're quite dogmatic about all of the back-end software being free-as-in-speech), which will migrate to a paid one when they feel it's stable.  It works fine as a hosted repository, but is a little more opinionated than entirely suits my taste.

Heptapod is a paid hosting service, but they also run a free service for FOSS projects <https://foss.heptapod.net/>.  I think both are fairly new, as services; Heptapod is closely related to some key Mercurial developers, as far as I can see.  Since they're developing a friendly fork of GitLab, it's basically GitLab+Hg.

Both are sympathetic to self-hosting.

Best wishes,

Norman


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