Installation and configuration of Mercurial

Installation

Windows :

The best version of Mercurial for Windows is TortoiseHg, which can be found at http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ . This package has no external dependencies. It “just works.” It provides both command-line and graphical user interfaces.
After installation, you will have a right-click menu in Windows Explorer that gives you access to the graphical tools. After logging out and in again, you will also have a hg and a thg program available in a Command Prompt. You can use the thg program to start the graphical TortoiseHg tools.

Command-line : (figure 1)

GUI : (figure2)

Linux :

You can install Mercurial on Linux using package manager -

yum install *mercurial*

but installing it from package manager not assure you the latest version of mercurial.

So, You can install the latest version(2.6) from source http://mercurial.selenic.com/release , unpack it and run make install to install it.

If you get any issue like “error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 ” then install following thing

            yum install python

Check the correct version of devel and install it :

           yum search python | grep -i devel

           yum install python-devel.x86_64

           yum install python-docutils

To find out whether the Mercurial is installed properly. Check hg version command. If the Mercurial is installed properly, You can see the version information as below (figure 3) :

Configuration

Once your setup is ready, You have to add username in the configuration file.

Linux :

create new file having name “.hgrc” under $HOME directory and

[ui]

username =Firstname Lastname <example@example.org>

(Figure 4)

Windows:

create new file having name “Mercurial.ini” under $HOME directory and add

[ui]

username =Firstname Lastname <example@example.org>

To confirm, You have added username correctly, Run hg debuginstall command. You will get the message “No problem detected.”