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Subject: EOL of (usable) git, switch to Mercurial?
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Greetings!

Since git has decided to EOL itself by a switch to RUST (which poses a
chicken and egg problem for bootstrapping, among other technical,
political and licensing issues), could the Cygwin repos please be
switched to a free SCM system like Mercurial?

Mark
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