Run Mercurial as Windows Service

[Sean]

Ignacio,

That  does look good.

I had hacked at the registry myself to give me some simple context
(right click) menu hg command -> hg status and hg commit, but yours
looks much more comprehensive.

I would be very keen to try the shell extensions. (is it just a .reg
file or is there more too it than that ?)

TIA

On 6/29/07, Ignacio Alvarez <dev at xentient.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm a Windows programmer and I've been using Mercurial for only a few
> weeks, but I've liked it so much that I've switched our team of Windows
> programmers from Subversion to Mercurial.
>
>  The only real problem with the switch was the lack of a Windows GUI and
> shell integration. That's why I wrote a simple shell extension to give
> access to the Mercurial commands I've found most useful:
>
>  http://xentient.com/images/SNAG-00001.png
>
>  We've been using the shell extension for the past two weeks with Mercurial
> 0.9.3.
>
>  I also created an installer that packages the shell extension, Mercurial,
> Qct (for doing commits), and KDiff3 (for diffs, merging). The installer only
> asks for the committer user name and email and takes care of setting up
> everything.
>
>  For shared centralized repositories, we're using SSH to access Mercurial
> running on a Linux server.
>
>  If anyone is interested in the shell extension, we're open to releasing it
> to the public.
>
>  Thank you.
>
>  Ignacio.
>
>
>
>  Rafael Villar Burke wrote:
>  António Mertens wrote:
>
>
>  I all. First time I'm trying to contribute to opensource projects so
> be gentle :)
>
> Story so far...
>
>  I've just recently "met" Mercurial and started using it right away.
>  I'm mostly and windows programmer and wanted to use the hg serve
> option, but to do that, in Windows, you have to leave the terminal
> window opened (hg crashes with -d but even so I think the terminal has
> to remain opened). So I created a Windows Service. I thought of it
> because SVNServer also has the same problem and solved it with a
> windows service.
>
>
>
>  I don't know if you'll find it useful or not. I can provide free the
> source code (C# .NET 2.0) and the compiled binaries. I've made a small
> msi installer but it doesn't installs the service automatically. I'll
> try to put it online and on a mercurial repos by the end of the day or
> tomorrow...
>  Please tell me what you think :) Thankx
>
>  It's simply great!. Thanks for sharing it!. Having nice tools to
> integrate mercurial in the developer's environment are always a good thing.
>
> Some time ago, some mails on the list commented about a work in progress
> to create a TortoiseSVN clone for hg. This hg service could be a nice
> complement, and perhaps it could be bundled with it in a "Mercurial for
> Win32 GUI edition" ;).
>
> I'm sure you can help a lot with it as, AFAIK, there aren't too much
> windows programmer around here. But... is the TortoiseHG project still
> alive?. Is there a way to see the code?. Knowing this would help to get
> some contributors...
>
> Regards,
>
> Rafael Villar Burke
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