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From: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 07:15:51 +0300, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya)
> <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >         Community maintained hg doesn’t scale as well as git and never built up the external community support that’s present with hosted solutions like GitHub, gitlab, etc. The fact that large groups of the *OSS community settled on git a few years ago and MS bought GH was probably a large red flag that should have inspired other groups to consider alternatives to hosting purely git-based infrastructure. Maybe this will be the impetus for that change.
> 
> There is Heptapod [1] which fills that niche.
> 
> [1] https://heptapod.net/

FWIW, Sourcehut supports both git & hg: https://sr.ht/

Jeff.