<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m currently keeping an eye on this.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think I reported back to the group, but my previous investigation on hg -> git conversion on bitbucket suggested it was essentially impossible to migrate to git and keep issues and pull requests intact.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s still the case even after this announcement, which is disappointing. Atlassian’s current statement appears to be that they will be deleting all mercurial projects in 2020 we are likely to lose access to the issues and pull requests regardless, and Atlassian are not providing any migration path to git.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggest waiting for the dust to settle and reviewing again in a month or so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are there any other OIDF groups that are still using mercurial?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joseph</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Aug 2019, at 07:56, Dave Tonge <<a href="mailto:dave.tonge@momentumft.co.uk" class="">dave.tonge@momentumft.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Looks like moving to git will be necessary. </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Atlassian</strong> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:noreply@mailer.atlassian.com" class="">noreply@mailer.atlassian.com</a>></span><br class="">Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 5:46 PM<br class="">Subject: Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket<br class="">To:  <<a href="mailto:dave.tonge@bluespeckfinancial.co.uk" class="">dave.tonge@bluespeckfinancial.co.uk</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><u class=""></u>









 

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          After much consideration, <strong class="">we've decided to remove Mercurial support from Bitbucket Cloud and the API. Mercurial features and repositories will be officially removed from Bitbucket and its API on June 1, 2020.</strong>
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         What used to be a very fragmented version control software market has rapidly matured. Mercurial usage on Bitbucket is steadily declining, and the percentage of new Bitbucket users choosing Mercurial has fallen to less than 1%. At the same time, Git has become the standard. According to a Stack Overflow Developer Survey, almost 90% of developers use Git, while Mercurial is the least popular version control system with only about 3% developer adoption.
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         Given that Git has emerged as the version control system of choice for the industry, we have decided to focus our priorities and roadmap on building the best possible experience for the market and our users.
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         Read on to learn more about what led to this decision, timeline, and migration resource support.
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