Mercurial Portable/Stand-Alone Application

[Steve Borho]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/22 Afriza N. Arief <afriza.na at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> Does someone ever make a Portable/Stand-Alone Mercurial (or TortoiseHg)
>> binary to put into USB/Flash Disk? if not, is it possble to make it?
>> Something like PortableApps.com does.. I am using Windows btw..
>> Regards,
>> afriza
>
> The standard Mercurial binaries are portable. Just pack up the
> Mercurial directory and put it wherever you like.
>
> I don't know about TortoiseHG, and you may need to think a bit about
> configuring external tools, but the basic binary is fine.

If you don't care about shell extensions, you can also copy the
TortoiseHg directory
to a USB drive and run hgtk and hg commands on any Windows machine.

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Steve Borho