Re: Bitbucket Dropping Support For Mercurial

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:05:23 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:

> 'Bitbucket, once one of the largest Mercurial repository hosting
> sites, said Tuesday it plans to remove Mercurial features and
> repositories from its platform on June 1, 2020.'

Was it really that long ago it was posting blog entries
<https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/mercurial-vs-git-why-mercurial>
on how Mercurial was so much better than Git?

(Link found from this article
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/21/bitbucket_mercurial_repositories/>
which manages to include a relevant limerick in its subhead.)

> '"Another [poor] aspect of bitbucket dropping mercurial support and
> deleting all the old repositories in 2020: all yt pull request
> discussions from before 2017 are going to be deleted. There's
> valuable context for how the code got written in those discussions."'

Which is why I am really not keen on incorporating GitHubisms into my
own repos, just for example.

> 'For those of you affected by this, you can consider a number of
> platforms including SourceForge to host and manage your repositories.'

When somebody is suggesting that SourceForge might be a better option,
does that count as a low blow? ;)
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