Bitbucket is dropping support for Mercurial: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket
They report declining usage with <1% of new users using it. Given the additional work required to support both, I understand. VCS variety is worthwhile though: perhaps hg-only platforms are easier to support.
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The Makefile problem, or how absurdly hard it is to write paths in a text file whilst supporting both *nix and Windows:
I've released difftastic 0.11! In this release:
* Basic syntax highlighting of keywords and comments!
* Substantially improved performance! I've seen 0.5x runtime on larger programs.
* Basic Mercurial support!
Plus an bunch of smaller fixes and polish:
I'm comfortable with git, and recently learned mercurial, and I've concluded: commits are the wrong abstraction.
Work-in-progress and finished work are different concepts. Rebases and even branches are for WIP. Signing is for finished work. Timestamps and authors change for WIP.