sourcetree (MacOS) and mercurial problems

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "NG" == Norman Gray <gray at nxg.name> writes:

Hello Norman,

> 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>?

Yes

> 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.

Ok, I know both but I should have added some information.
I contribute to emacs packages (auctex and matlab-mode, both are using
git[1] (so I am using hg-git).

But I also use mercurial for 

    1. My research, but that requires no software, just writing up
       manuscripts in Latex, and that is why that repository should be
       private not public.

    2. Bachelor or master thesis of students, again most of the stuff is
       either latex or short matlab programs, and again these
       repositories should be private not public.

Currently only helix allows me to use it this way. I used sourcehat for
a while but found it too complicated for un experienced users, such as
my collaborators or students.



> 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.


But only for public repositories as far as I can see.

Regards


Uwe 
> Best wishes,

> Norman


Footnotes:
[1]  fun part: there was a votation of 20 users all wanted git, but then
     only 3 of us contributed, and mercurial would have been feasible,

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