EOL of (usable) git, switch to Mercurial?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 09.09.25 um 10:23 schrieb Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin:
> 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

Are you sure Hg isn't going the same way in the long term?
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/relnotes/7.0#rust