Comment by dgfitz
2 days ago
I’m pumped a search for hg+mercurial had hits in this thread. I am and will continue to be completely blown that hg lost the dvcs wars. It’s a better tool.
2 days ago
I’m pumped a search for hg+mercurial had hits in this thread. I am and will continue to be completely blown that hg lost the dvcs wars. It’s a better tool.
It is the unquestioningly better tool right now. It's available, stable, battle-tested and it's actively supported. It's a case of "being the change you want to see". Just use it. Claims that it lost are counterproductive. The implicit deterrence from those statements is what is actively keeping Mercurial's adoption low.
Hosting is available at least from Sourcehut and heptapod.host.
I'm running a private Heptapod instance (Gitlab fork with direct Mercurial support). It just works.
I use it every day!
Are there any public forges that support hg?
Have a look at heptapost.host for paid hosting and foss.heptapod.net for free public hosting for OSS. Is that what you are looking for?
> Are there any public forges that support hg?
Sourceforge, Sourcehut, and GNU Savannah all support Mercurial.
That sounds interesting. Does anyone have a GitHub link?
It's the slower tool.
I don’t mind if it is slightly slower, if that is even true anymore.
Turns out while hg clone, pull, or whatever is running, I can do other things!
That was relevant to Linus in the early 2000s, but then, we didn't have NVMe SSDs.
It is still noticeably slower on a large codebase.