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  2. BCLOUD-20031

Permanent redirect for discontinued Mercurial repositories

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      I am a scientist, and I have links to my old Mercurial repositories in multiple academic publications, which I cannot change. I understand that keeping the repositories frozen or read-only after the end of support for Mercurial might be infeasible. However, I would greatly appreciate an option of putting permanent redirects from my Mercurial repositories to their up-to-date Git versions. That way, links in my publications will still resolve, while Atlassian won't need to keep anything Mercurial-related alive.

            [BCLOUD-20031] Permanent redirect for discontinued Mercurial repositories

            timarkh added a comment -

            Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that, and it looks like a solution. However, it's not clear if that redirect survives when the underlying repository is deleted by Atlassian. If that is the case, it would be nice if they stated that explicitly somewhere.

            timarkh added a comment - Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that, and it looks like a solution. However, it's not clear if that redirect survives when the underlying repository is deleted by Atlassian. If that is the case, it would be nice if they stated that explicitly somewhere.

            Zoltán Lehóczky added a comment -

            The trick is that you need to delete your repos before Atlassian does: When you do this you can specify an URL to redirect to. Thus your repo URLs will continue to live as redirects.

            Zoltán Lehóczky added a comment - The trick is that you need to delete your repos before Atlassian does: When you do this you can specify an URL to redirect to. Thus your repo URLs will continue to live as redirects.

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