sourcetree (MacOS) and mercurial problems

[Norman Gray]

Uwe, hello.

On 11 Apr 2022, at 21:37, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> Does anybody have experience with the GUI sourcetree and mercurial?
>  I would like to test it for a colleague (in the hope to convince him to
>  use mercurial), he requires a gui, while for me the command line or
>  Emacs are fine.
>  Be it as it may, when either generating a new repository or opening an
>  existing one, I obtain an error whos screenshot I attach

I think it's just that the Mercurial client built in to SourceTree is too old.  It might be possible to configure it to use a separate and more recent one, installed locally, but I haven't tried that.

I used SourceTree off and on (I find it quite convenient to use a GUI for visualising the state of the commit graph when it's slightly complicated, enough that hg log -G requires some thought to interpret).  It originates from Atlassian, and I think they stopped showing it much love around the time they dropped Mercurial support from Bitbucket.

I now use TortoiseHg for visualising.  It works well for that, at least, and I've heard broadly good things about its behaviour when doing other mercurial-related tasks.

Best wishes,

Norman


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