#heptapod 18.0.2 released, bumping #gitlab to the 18.0.5 regular patch/security Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-18.0.2/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
#Mercurial 7.0.3 is now available in #openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot 20250716
I've created a stripped-down template for hgweb so that I can still link to the latest version of files, but not any others 
For example: https://dev.ibboard.co.uk/repos/other/Puppet/file/tip/modules/website/files/greatfirewallagainstchina.conf
#heptapod 18.0.1 released, bumping #gitlab to the 18.0.4 regular patch/security release and several Heptapod enhancements Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-18.0.1/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
#heptapod 17.11.4 released, bumping #gitlab to the 17.11.6 regular patch/security release Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-17.11.4/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
#heptapod Runner 0.8.0rc1, based on #gitlab Runner 17.9.0 is available for testing! Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod-runner/-/blob/heptapod-0.8.0rc1/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Docker: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/heptapod/heptapod-runner/tags/?name=0.8.0rc1 #git #mercurial
#heptapod 18.0.0 released, based on #gitlab 18.0.3. A major landmark, as it brings the fully native #mercurial program to its expected conclusion (see https://heptapod.net/the-road-to-fully-native-mercurial-in-heptapod). Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-18.0.0/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git
#heptapod 17.11.3 released, bumping #gitlab to the regular patch/security 17.11.5 version Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-17.11.3/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware
Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together
Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV
DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status
DIY robots "drones"
Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9
Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it
Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.
Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools
Writing more of my own tools #DIY
#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift
Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic
Start an #InternetResiliencyClub
Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy
#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial
#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance
Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P
DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse
Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures
Start asking money for advice & technology support
Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art
#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic
#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki
#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise
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#heptapod 18.0.0rc1 released, based on #gitlab 18.0.2 and including major internal refactorings to pay technical debt off! Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/heptapod/heptapod/tags?name=18.0.0rc1 Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-18.0.0rc1/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md #git #mercurial
Time for an odd one I guess... This is a topic that seems to keep coming up and I'm curious how wide spread it is.
Are you aware that #Git, #Mercurial, and other version control tools have a global ignore file so you can add stuff like venv, node_modules, etc too it instead of adding these files to the ignore file in every repository?
See https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore and https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/.hgignore for some examples.
And I just learned from the docs that XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore is the default.
#heptapod 17.11.2 released, bumping #gitlab to the 17.11.3 sheduled patch/security release Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-17.11.2/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
Woah, #launchpad is not going to support #bazaar anymore. Reminds me of when #bitbucket stopped supporting #mercurial. It didn't kill mercurial, but it sure didn't help. 
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/launchpad-bazaar-support-being-removed
Realised that most docker images for Kallithea, a mercurial and git source control manager, were mostly very outdated or broken.
Ended up getting nerd snipped and worked on my own image for Kallithea!
https://github.com/Jalict/kallithea-docker
It is my first time doing a public facing docker image, feedback welcome :)
Trying to get the #mercurial test suite working again in the #openSUSE packages. I realise now why the tests are disabled by default.
For reference they take about 15 minutes when using all cores of my 5900X. Some of the openSUSE build workers are quite a bit slower than that it seems.
#heptapod 17.11.1 released, bumping #gitlab to the 17.11.3 scheduled patch release Changelog: https://foss.heptapod.net/heptapod/heptapod/-/blob/heptapod-17.11.1/HEPTAPOD_CHANGELOG.md Download instructions: https://heptapod.net/pages/get-heptapod.html#get-heptapod #git #mercurial
Mozilla uses Microsoft GitHub as the official home for Firefox source code
The switch in version management from Mercurial to Git, which began two years ago, is now complete. The central repository is now located on GitHub.
Mozilla nutzt Microsoft GitHub als offizielle Heimat für den Firefox-Sourcecode
Der vor zwei Jahren gestartete Wechsel der Versionsverwaltung von Mercurial zu Git ist jetzt abgeschlossen. Das zentrale Repository liegt jetzt auf GitHub.
@tom I was very fortunate to do some #Mercurial in between subversion and git.
Mozilla 把 Firefox 的 code repository 搬到 GitHub 上
