@freemo I know we have an instance of Gitlab hosted on Qoto, but I was curious if you've considered something for hosting mercurial/etc projects as well. I really appreciate the access to Gitlab, but I'm thinking of switching to either Hg or Sapling (even though the latter is made by...Meta🤢) as potential git alternatives due to many suggestions on hacker news, along with extensibility, and apparent simplicity of both tools.
I'm not sure if there would be widespread interest in such a thing since git more or less won the DVCS war, but I figured I'd chuck the idea your way and see if you have interest in making it happen like the STEM-genie I often imagine you to be 😂
P.S. I hope you're doing well and have fun plans for Thanksgiving...assuming you take time to celebrate it in Utrecht, that is 😉
@freemo Edit: I take it back, there is no good emacs compatibility. What curse have I brought upon this blessed instance, please ignore.
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@johnabs hahaa, sadly, no plans for thanksgiving as im not in america. Sorry i missed your original post.
I always wanted to play with Hg but truth be told, it just doesnt offer anything worth the cost of being such a rarity.
@freemo Aww that sucks 😕 I'll pour out a gravy boat for our expat homies 😂
And no problem, I figured I'd bump it for anyone I may have convinced to try it. IMO it's not worth it unless you only want CLI usage (or to use a separate gui program like TortoiseHG). I like Emacs too much, and "monky" doesn't come remotely close to Magit, so I'll put up with my git grievances...for now.
@freemo Well if you find anything ground breaking, let me know! Worst case scenario, I'll fork Magit and be annoyed for a bit while I hack together Hg support.
The other downside is a lack of free options for hosting except for FOSS projects, and as a research under a PI, I don't get a huge amount of say when/where the packages get released unfortunately :(
@johnabs one day ill play with hg just for shits and giggles.. i doubt i will ever adopt it because i work with teams, and if im in a team i gotta use what people know and prefer.