On 20/08/2019 14:51, Christian Brabandt wrote: > External Sender: Use caution with links/attachments. > > On Di, 20 Aug 2019, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >> Full details: >> https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket >> >> TLDR: Bit bucket won't allow creating *new* Mercurial repos starting >> 2020-02-01 and on 2020-06-01 all existing Mercurial repos on bitbucket >> will be deleted. From then on it will only support git repos. >> >> How it concerns Vim: We have on bitbucket a Mercurial repo, which >> mirrors the git repo maintained by Bram on github. So we don't need to >> migrate to a git repo (we already have one) but if we do nothing our >> existing Mercurial mirror will vanish into thin air on 2020-06-01. >> >> Our current Mercurial repo is maintained by Christian Brabandt, and I >> am one of its users; I hope I'm not alone (I understand Mercurial much >> better than I do git). So Christian: IIUC you're holding the hot >> potato. But maybe someone else has opinions about what to do next (I >> don't). > > Oh too bad. I am more of a git users nowadays but I am still sorry, > mercurial support is dropped. That sounds like there is only git left > for distributed versioning control.
Mercurial itself is not disappearing, but most likely is becoming more niche with just a few companies and projects holding out. But the sheep seem to have voted and git has won it seems. There is the hg-git plugin for those that still want to use Mercurial to work on Vim, but I don't know how good it actually is. > Does anybody know of other existing > code sharing sites we could use instead? I am willing to keep my script > running (since it's been running flawlessly and I haven't had many > issues with it) and it was an interesting challenge to keep two > repositories synced. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MercurialHosting#Free_services Given the relatively low access it may be simpler to set up a small hosted read-only server. The repo is only ~80MiB and most reads should be for delta updates. TTFN Mike -- Verbing weirds language. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/aa4dfc81-4c9d-1d1e-fd85-d1cc8d16e459%40globalgraphics.com.
