Portable Mercurial on Windows

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Snidely <snidely.too at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running TortoiseHG on my home computers, but have to work on a
> school lab computer sometimes, and I'd like to be able check in files
> when I'm there.
>
> Kinda like the OP in <http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2009-
> August/027273.html>.
>
> Is the advice in that correspondence still good with the 1.9.x Hg and
> the 2.1.x Terrapins?
>
> I've also looked at <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1904419/
> running-mercurial-on-a-flash-drive>.
>
> I'll probably need at least the 32-bit version for XP, Vista, and W7
> hosts; any issues with using it on 64-bit machines?  Although, at 80
> MB, my flash stick ought to be able to hold the 64-bit flavor for
> those trips to the better Vista and W7 machines.

I don't think anything has changed in this regard.  You won't have the
shell extension and a few things will need to be hacked into your path
(TortoisePlink, kdiff3), but the command line hg and thg tools should
work this way.

-- 
Steve Borho