Visualizing hg repositories

Steve Borho steve at borho.org
Fri Apr 11 09:25:21 CDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:51 +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
> Thanks Patrick!
> 
> Am Freitag, 11. April 2008 13:41:58 schrieb Patrick Mézard:
> > > Is there any extension / command I should try instead?  I have found many
> > > visualizations for trac inclusion etc., but I am looking for a standalone
> > > tool, and the graphviz extension seemed to be the the optimal candidate.
> >
> > It does not exactly address the issues above, but did you try hgk extension
> > ? I found it really useful to explain things, it's a bit ugly but easy to
> > setup.
> 
> It was not as easy to setup as the graphviz extension (hgk was not in PATH 
> here, but in a contrib directory I had to specify), but at least on this 
> computer, where TK/TCL is installed, it does indeed give a very usable 
> overview of the changesets.  Thanks for the hint.
> 
> Still, I would be interested in other options and opinions.

In the same vein as hgk, you can try the TortoiseHg log browser.

Installation instructions here:
http://tortoisehg.wiki.sourceforge.net/hgtk

Once it's installed, you run:  hgtk log

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