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Post by kannonboy » Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

kannonboy wrote: post #111

timv wrote: post #86

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Bitbucket has remained a standalone product, but I don't think many of its original mercurial userbase feel like it's been "safe". When Atlassian bought bitbucket it was the place to host mercurial repositories. Now it's a git hosting service that hasn't gotten around to turning off mercurial support yet.

Hi timv, Bitbucket engineer here. I'm not on the PM team, but to my knowledge we have no plans to discontinue Hg support. The Bitbucket repo population is roughly 90% Git and 10% Mercurial, but due to our scale that is still a freaking huge number of Hg repos. We also hired one of the core Mercurial contributors last year to ensure we continue to improve our offering for both DVCSs. Of course I can't personally guara…