On 20/08/2019 14:51, Christian Brabandt wrote:
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> 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
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