Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only app?

Adrian Buehlmann adrian at cadifra.com
Sun May 22 10:08:41 UTC 2011


On 2011-05-22 11:46, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A simple question:  Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only application, or is it
> cross platform? The website *says* that it supports Linux, but the
> Bitbucket site only has .msi and .exe files to download.

TortoiseHg *is* cross platform:
https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/thg

> I had a thread about something related earlier. I wanted to see a
> graph of my repository and none of the options people mentioned worked
> and it just felt that Linux is a second class citizen in Mercurial
> world. I haven't quit Mercurial yet, but I never did manage to get a
> graph of my repository under Linux and it really does seem that
> Mercurial is focused on Windows.

LOL.

You must be kidding. Mercurial *is* cross platform and if a platform is
second class then it's probably Windows. Because of the many quirks that
platform has.

Have a look at (possibly outdated):
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UnixInstall

And you might be interested in the graphlog extension (comes bundled
with Mercurial) for seeing graphs in a terminal:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GraphlogExtension




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