2011-12-04

Converting from Subversion to Mercurial on Bitbucket

I've been doing source control of personal projects on my own Subversion server for several years, but lately I've gotten interested in making some of it available so that perspective employers can see examples of my work. To do that, I setup a Stack Overflow Careers profile which acts as a resume with links to my StackExchange network profiles and projects on any of the major cloud-based source control services.

Bitbucket, hosted by Atlassian, provides free hosting for any number of repos, private or public, provided you stick to 5 or fewer total committers. It supports Git and Mercurial, probably the two most popular DVCSs today, and since I had some previous experience with Mercurial and use it every day at my current job, I opted for that.