Git is really too complicated for what we need as scientists / students / teachers / developers of most scientific programs.
Mercurial is more adapted for us in academics: http://www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/people/Pierre.Augier/mercurial-as-a-great-version-source-control-management-tool-in-academics.html
[Mercurial is more adapted for us in academics.](http://www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/people/Pierre.Augier/mercurial-as-a-great-version-source-control-management-tool-in-academics.html)
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### Why Gitlab?
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### Warning! Gitlab does not natively support Mercurial!
For now, we'll have to use a Mercurial extension (hg-git) and it won't be as nice as if we could use a platform natively supporting Mercurial (as for example Bitbucket).
But Heptapod (Gitlab with Mercurial support) is coming https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html
But [Heptapod (Gitlab with Mercurial support)](https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html) is coming.