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  2. date: 2019-04-15
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  4. title: Announcing first-class Mercurial support on Sourcehut
  5. tags: ["sourcehut", "mercurial"]
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  8. I'm pleased to announce that the final pieces have fallen into place for
  9. [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) support on
  10. [SourceHut](https://sourcehut.org), which is now on-par with our git offering.
  11. Special thanks are owed to SourceHut contributor Ludovic Chabant, who has been
  12. instrumental in adding Mercurial support to SourceHut. You may have heard about
  13. it while this was still experimental - but I'm happy to tell you that we have
  14. now completely integrated Mercurial support into SourceHut! Want to try it out?
  15. Check out [the tutorial](https://man.sr.ht/tutorials/set-up-account-and-hg.md).
  17. Mercurial support on SourceHut includes all of the trimmings, including CI
  18. support via [builds.sr.ht](https://builds.sr.ht) and email-driven collaboration
  19. on [lists.sr.ht](https://lists.sr.ht). Of course, it's also 100%
  20. free-as-in-freedom, open source software ([hosted on
  21. itself](https://hg.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht)) that you can [deploy on your own
  22. servers](https://man.sr.ht/hg.sr.ht/installation.md). We've tested hg.sr.ht
  23. on some of the largest Mercurial repositories out there, including
  24. mozilla-central and NetBSD src. The NetBSD project in particular has been very
  25. helpful, walking us through their CVS to Hg conversion and stress-testing
  26. hg.sr.ht with the resulting giant repositories. I'm looking forward to working
  27. more with them in the future!
  29. The Mercurial community is actively innovating their software, and we'll be
  30. right behind them. I'm excited to provide a platform for elevating the Mercurial
  31. community. There weren't a lot of good options for Mercurial fans before
  32. SourceHut. Let's fix that together! SourceHut will be taking a more active role
  33. in the Hg community, just like we have for git, and together we'll build a great
  34. platform for software development.
  36. I'll see you in Paris in May, at the [inaugural Mercurial
  37. conference](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2019-April/051196.html)!
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  41. Hg support on SourceHut was largely written by members of the Mercurial
  42. community. If there are other version control communities interested in
  43. SourceHut support, please [reach out](mailto:~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev@lists.sr.ht)!