Update: (04/14/11) I see that freehg now links to an adult site. Hence, I have removed all the links. Just a small post to document the options with regards to “free” mercurial repo hosting. Many options are located on mercurial’s homepage here. I choose to compare offerings from [bitbucket][2] and freehg. I was rooting for freehg in my comparisons because they sound more “free” Anyway, the numbers don’t lie. %% time hg push http://freehg.org/u/jolexa/personal/ pushing to http://freehg.org/u/jolexa/personal/ searching for changes no changes found real 0m4.221s user 0m0.103s sys 0m0.011s vs %% time hg push http://bitbucket.org/jolexa/personal/ pushing to http://bitbucket.org/jolexa/personal/ searching for changes no changes found real 0m0.665s user 0m0.109s sys 0m0.011s and..