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Company blog · octobus.net/blogprogrammingsystems

Octobus is the company blog at octobus.net, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Octobus posts for background on Heptapod, a GitLab fork that supports Mercurial, including its archiving of Bitbucket Mercurial repositories and its reasons for choosing GitLab.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-19
  2. Modern Mercurial
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. alwillis · 2022-02-20
    As a Mercurial user from almost the beginning, it’s not accurate to say Mercurial has a hidden index. That Steve Losh post is from 2010 and it was mainly highlighting a workflow that was popular at the time for a particular use case. It also highlighted how Mercurial’s plug-in architecture can be used to to support different workflows. Fast forward to the present and the use of MQ isn’t really a thing anymore, but i…

    Comment linking /blog/2020-11-26-modern-mercurial.html

    on “Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful”
  2. jordigh · 2018-10-10

    Submitted Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. alwillis · 2022-10-18
    Heptapod archived 250,000 Bitbucket Mercurial repos and runs fork of GitLab that supports Mercurial: https://octobus.net/blog/2020-04-23-heptapod-and-swh.html

    Comment linking /blog/2020-04-23-heptapod-and-swh.html

    on “Codeberg: A GitHub alternative from Europe”
  4. lothiraldan · 2018-09-19

    Submitted Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. sytse · 2020-08-27
    They elaborated on their choice for GitLab on https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html "Gitlab has been one of the fastest growing platforms in the past couple of years. It has a strong feature set praised by many. We have seen all kinds of users switching from Mercurial to Git just to be able to use it. So the quality and the reputation of the product itself made us look into it. Moreover, Gitlab…

    Comment linking /blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html

    on “Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab”
  6. somnium_sn · 2020-12-01

    Submitted Modern Mercurial as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. 1wd · 2018-09-19

    Submitted Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. gilad · 2020-11-28

    Submitted Modern Mercurial as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. chris_overseas · 2020-06-11

    Submitted An effort to archive all of Bitbucket Mercurial content as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. lothiraldan · 2018-07-30

    Submitted Performance benchmarking 101 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. lothiraldan · 2017-09-28

    Submitted New evolve extension release: version 6.7.0 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. lothiraldan · 2017-09-21

    Submitted Evolve documentation mini-sprint as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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