Getting Mercurial to work on Windows

Question

I am a fan of Mercurial and have been using it on Linux for several years. Does anyone have any experience getting this installed and running on Windows Vista? The only installation instructions I found look too complicated. Does anyone have a decent checklist built on their own personal experience?

thanks

Chris

Follow-up: After several weeks of use, I can say that Mercurial on Windows works very well with the turtle. One of the problems that I discovered is that push performance was much slower than on Linux.

I also found that cygwin has a port.

Answer 1

Take a look at TortoiseHg . I use it in my development environment at work (which is Windows XP) all the time and has absolutely no problems with it. Even better, it comes with everything you need.

Answer 2

I am using TortoiseHg. The only thing you need to pay attention to is 64 bit. I am using 64 bit Vista. To work with the TortoiseHg context menu, you need to create a 32-bit Explorer shortcut. On a 64-bit version of Vista, just create a shortcut with the goal:% Systemroot% \ SysWOW64 \ explorer.exe / separate

Starting with version 0.8 (released 2009-07-01) TortoiseHg supports 64-bit integration with the Windows Vista shell. Thanks to the new C ++ shell extension (I made a significant contribution to this).

Check for the current release of TortoiseHg-0.8.1-hg-1.3.1.exe, available from http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/downloads/

Answer 3

How to use these installers ?

If I remember correctly, it will be installed without any problems, and then you will have the hg command, which you can use on the command line, as in Linux. At least the client side works without any problems, I am not trying to start any mercurial servers.