About Heptapod

Heptapod is a community driven effort to bring Mercurial support to GitLab™, started by Octobus a team of Mercurial experts taming the biggest pain-point in the Mercurial ecosystem.

It is considered a friendly fork of GitLab Community Edition.

Heptapod is available under the same MIT license as GitLab CE.

Though not a mere prototype any more, Heptapod is still quite experimental.

Resources

demonstration video
original announcement
Slides of the presentation at the 2019 Mercurial Paris Conference

A short history

prototype phase (late 2017 to early 2019). The first and foremost focus was to demonstrate that modern Mercurial concepts (evolve, topic) could fit GitLab, its branches and merge requests
stabilization phase (S1 2019). Starting from the prototype, making Heptapod usable in practice at several organisations, leading in particular to public self hosting.
experimental phase (ongoing). Longer term developments for better technical integration with GitLab, while maintaining the existing code base.