sourcetree (MacOS) and mercurial problems

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "NG" == Norman Gray <gray at nxg.name> writes:

> 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.

Don't remind me about this painful decision, it left basically one free
mercurial repository, helix.


> 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.

Just for the protocol, I use either the command line or emacs, but my
colleagues want a GUI, tortoiseHG is fine but a bit bloated, sourcetree
seems simpler, but as you pointed out, a bit outdated.

Uwe 


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