Window Tortoisehg, realised I cannot use Bitbucket, is there free alternative for home use (with cheap annual subscription) which is easy to setup

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Window Tortoisehg, realized I cannot use Bitbucket, is there free alternative for home use (with a cheap annual subscription) that is easy to setup. Many answer found here are outdated since Bitbucket no longer support Tortoisehg. I'm open for suggestion. I looked into GitHub but had no luck in making push works

Answer 1

1. You still can use Bitbucket and any other Git-hosting with hg-git extension in Mercurial (ssh and https pushes aren't a problem at all - I have and use Github repos from my THG)
2. You can see at pure Mercurial hostings, but I'll recommend starting from

• Helix TeamHub (free)
• SF.net (terrible old interface, but..)
• Heptapod Hosting (paid, but not overpriced)

Answer 2

Heptapod is one commercial (not free) example. They say:

The power of GitLab Core and Mercurial combined ... Access your Mercurial repository through HTTPS, SSH or the Web UI.

One side-benefit of using their services is that they themselves host the repositories for numerous Mercurial tools including TortoiseHG, etc. Perhaps / presumably the commercial side helps to financially support all of that:

https://foss.heptapod.net/explore/projects/trending