Getting Mercurial to run in Windows

Question

Hi,

I'm a fan of Mercurial and have been using it on Linux for a few years. Does anyone have any experience getting this installed and running on Windows Vista? The only installation instructions that I've found look overly complicated. Does anyone have a decent checklist built from their own personal experience?

Thanks

Chris

Follow-up: After a few weeks usage, I can say that Mercurial on Windows works pretty well with tortoise. The one problem I found is that push performance seemed to be much slower than on linux.

I also discovered that cygwin has a port.

Answer 1

How about using these installers ?

If I remember correctly it will install without any problems, and then you will have hg command which you can use on command-line, just like in Linux. At least the client side works without any problems, I have not tried to run any mercurial servers.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

I use TortoiseHg as well. The one thing you have to watch out for is 64 bit. I use 64 bit Vista. You have to create a 32 bit Explorer shortcut for the TortoiseHg shortcut menu to work. On 64 bit Vista just create a shortcut with the target: %Systemroot%\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separated

Starting with version 0.8 (released 2009-07-01) TortoiseHg supports Windows Vista 64bit explorer shell integration. Thanks to the new C++ shell extension (I contributed significantly to that).

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