I am using Mercurial for my source control and SourceTree to manage it. I want to use Visual Studio's built in diff and merge tool (vsdiffmerge) for comparing files however this is not working. I...

I'm trying to follow the sample code for writing Mercurial extensions. This is a minimal sample, copied verbatim from the sample code: from mercurial import cmdutil from mercurial.i18n import _ c...

In the past, I have been working with the largefiles extension in mercurial to save data together with the code I have been working on. I think this was a mistake and I would like to remove the "la...

I have installed Mercurial from the Ubuntu package repository. However I don't know how to enable extensions (q* commands). How should I do that? The help shows that enabled extensions: style (no...

I have a project whose main (Mercurial) repository is on SourceForge, but there are clones on Bitbucket (Mercurial) and Github (Git). Now I have been using hg-git to push the Mercurial repository ...

My team is switching to Mercurial. Our projects all have a config file (web.config or app.config, and a few bat files as well - we are a C# shop). These files need to be part of the repository. Whe...

i wrote an extension for Mercurial e.g. hg dosomthing --rev 5 and I was wondering what is the right approach to writing performance test cases to monitor the performance of the extension from when ...

I am trying for a while installing Hg-Git addon to my Windows 7 Operating system I have crossed several difficulties like installing Python and other utilities described in this blog. I had eve...

I need to attach custom metadata to my source files that at tracked via Mercurial. The svn properties commands are exactly what I need. Is there a mercurial extension that provides commands simila...

Normally, I would enable extensions by adding the following to .hg/hgrc: [extensions] hgext.win32text= [encode] ** = cleverencode: [decode] ** = cleverdecode: However, I want this configuration ...

Iam using win xp with Tortoisehg 2.3. I use bit bucket to backup my personal source code. (rarely for true version control, more as a source backup store). Right now I have to right click on my rep...

I'm using the Mercurial Convert extension to import data from a PerForce repository. The conversion appears to have worked correctly, but all the Windows line endings (CRLF) were replaced by unix e...

I'm writing a Mercurial extension in Python and need to call the "Pull" command using the Mercurial API, but I want to suppress its output using the --quiet flag. In Hg terms, I want to execute th...