The end of Mercurial on Bitbucket

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Justus Pendleton

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Aug 21, 2019, 10:44:37 AM8/21/19
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Admittedly Martin has until June 1, 2020, to decide what to do....but I figure I'd post now to see what his initial thoughts are....

yegle

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Aug 21, 2019, 10:53:22 AM8/21/19
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Once upon a time bitbucket was called hg.io :-(

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 7:44 AM Justus Pendleton <just...@gmail.com> wrote:

Admittedly Martin has until June 1, 2020, to decide what to do....but I figure I'd post now to see what his initial thoughts are....

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Martin Blais

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Aug 23, 2019, 12:15:33 AM8/23/19
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I suppose I could revive hg.furius.ca...

It sucks. Let's wait and see if some alternative doesn't come up.



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jukb...@gmail.com

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Aug 25, 2019, 10:33:22 AM8/25/19
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There's sourcehut


On Friday, August 23, 2019 at 4:15:33 AM UTC, Martin Blais wrote:
I suppose I could revive hg.furius.ca...

It sucks. Let's wait and see if some alternative doesn't come up.



On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:53 AM yegle <cny...@gmail.com> wrote:
Once upon a time bitbucket was called hg.io :-(

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 7:44 AM Justus Pendleton <just...@gmail.com> wrote:

Admittedly Martin has until June 1, 2020, to decide what to do....but I figure I'd post now to see what his initial thoughts are....

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Martin Blais

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Aug 25, 2019, 1:21:48 PM8/25/19
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And Phabricator

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Kirill Goncharov

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Aug 25, 2019, 1:50:20 PM8/25/19
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Are you considering a migration to git?
And Phabricator

Martin Blais

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Aug 25, 2019, 2:39:34 PM8/25/19
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Given the amount of time I've had to put on this lately, no.
When I'll re/write the next major version (in C++ w/ Python bindings), likely.


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Stefano Zacchiroli

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Feb 20, 2020, 12:00:49 PM2/20/20
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:15:19AM -0400, Martin Blais wrote:
> I suppose I could revive hg.furius.ca...
>
> It sucks. Let's wait and see if some alternative doesn't come up.

The removal of Mercurial support from Bitbucket is now imminent (we have
~3 months left).

Have you decided where the official Beancount repository is gonna be
after that?

Thank you in advance for your answer,
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Martin Blais

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Feb 20, 2020, 12:23:56 PM2/20/20
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:00 PM Stefano Zacchiroli <za...@upsilon.cc> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:15:19AM -0400, Martin Blais wrote:
> I suppose I could revive hg.furius.ca...
>
> It sucks. Let's wait and see if some alternative doesn't come up.

The removal of Mercurial support from Bitbucket is now imminent (we have
~3 months left).

Have you decided where the official Beancount repository is gonna be
after that?

No
Too busy, really



Thank you in advance for your answer,
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Kirill Goncharov

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Feb 20, 2020, 2:08:06 PM2/20/20
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What about Github? We have an official mirror there already ( https://github.com/beancount/beancount )

I successfully exported Bitbucket repo to git using the git-remote-hg tool, here's the result: https://github.com/xuhcc/beancount

Jeffrey Brent McBeth

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Feb 20, 2020, 3:27:43 PM2/20/20
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:08:06AM -0800, Kirill Goncharov wrote:
> What about Github? We have an official mirror there already (
> https://github.com/beancount/beancount )
> I successfully exported Bitbucket repo to git using the git-remote-hg
> tool, here's the result: https://github.com/xuhcc/beancount

I feel like we've already had this conversation, but
sourcehut.org has Mercurial as a first-class citizen

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Martin Blais

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Feb 20, 2020, 11:37:35 PM2/20/20
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Thanks for point that out, and yes Github has already been discussed and I haven't been able to find time to properly investigate a conversion and keep all the branches and investigate how to handle all the new problems that will happen with Git. It's not going to be a popular opinion but I know for a fact that all the companies who know what they're doing are all still privately choosing to use Mercurial over Git, even today. I haven't been able to dedicate the time to doing this right yet.

I have no idea when I'll find time to handle this or anything else TBH; I used to spend all my weekends coding on this project, but for the last 3-4 of years I've been focused on growing my career in a new direction and working 60 hr weeks or more + growing my family. New work on Beancount has been minimal; I'll eventually get to all those PRs, but that will take time, I have no idea when. More likely is that there will be a job change at some point and a few months off will materialize and I'd merge all the PRs and rewrite the processing half of this in C++ and split out the SQL code to a separate project with a Beancount plugin. That's what I hope for.

In the meantime I'm just focused on breakage avoidance (if anything causes real breakage I fix it right away), because I have no time for coding outside work and I'm still relying on Beancount several times/week (obviously, my financial life continues and the transactions keep accruing daily and that all still gets ingested and investment tracking and all that good stuff). 

I might just host it back on my box (at hg.furius.ca) like I used to.



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Tristan Kohl

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Feb 21, 2020, 1:32:22 AM2/21/20
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I do not have any suggestions to add to this discussion but I am with Martin on this topic when it comes to not switching. At work we use Mercurial for over a decade, I did not ask for reasons but personally I like the Mercurial commands way better than Git. Of course this is purely preferential as the whole FOSS world seems to love Git.

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Martin Michlmayr

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Feb 21, 2020, 1:34:40 AM2/21/20
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* Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> [2020-02-20 23:37]:
> Thanks for point that out, and yes Github has already been discussed
> and I haven't been able to find time to properly investigate a
> conversion and keep all the branches and investigate how to handle
> all the new problems that will happen with Git.

Kirill Goncharov created a Git repo. Maybe he (or others) could help
investigate the issues you foresee.

I don't think anyone here expects you to do all the work. If you give
some pointers, others might be able to help out.

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