Installing Mercurial on MacOS Big Sur

[David Demelier]

> Le 16 févr. 2021 à 08:08, Noel Duffy via Mercurial <mercurial at mercurial-scm.org> a écrit :
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> I want to install Mercurial on macOS Big Sur. I went to the mercurial-scm.og site, but ran into some trouble. 
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> Firstly, I cannot find checksums for any of the releases there, nor can I find any information about signatures. As far as I can tell, source tarballs do come with a signature, in a .asc file, but this I discovered by accident. And I can’t find the public key for that signature to verify that signature.
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> Secondly, there is a MacOS dmg file for Mercurial 5.7 that includes TortoiseHG, but the standalone version is 5.5.2. Is there a reason for this disparity? I generally prefer not to use things like Tortoise as I spend my time in the command-line and rarely use graphical file managers.

Then I recommend you to use http://brew.sh, it's the most common package manager for macOS and it includes mercurial as well.

Just type brew install mercurial once you've installed brew correctly.

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David