mercurial gui tools for windows ?

Zorba cr at altmore.co.uk
Thu Jan 1 21:53:43 CST 2009


> In general, it is a good idea to have a look at the wiki before
> posting here.
>
> Finding information about GUI tools on the wiki isn't that hard.

Yes, you are right - apologies

>> Some comments & further questions:
>>
>> (1) Tortoise
>>
>> Looks really good, but..
>> Tortoise v0.5 is broken by the new format repos (fncache) created by hg
>> v1.1+
>
> It's not broken. The new fncache format cannot be read by old versions
> of Mercurial.

Sorry again - inaccurate use of the word broken. "Incompatible with" 
replaces "broken by" please !

>> - and I had installed hg v1.1.1 a few days ago :-(
>> Any idea how to tell tortoise how to use hg v1.1.1 instead of v1.0.2 ?
>
> TortoiseHg *contains* Mercurial, so you would have to build
> a new version of TortoiseHg yourself or wait until the next
> official release.
>
> As hinted on
>
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/fncacheRepoFormat
>
> With ae70fe6143fc (contained in 1.1.1), doing
>
>    hg --config format.usefncache=0 clone --pull A B
>
> converts the local fncache repo A to non-fncache repo B.
>
> With ae70fe6143fc you can also specify
>
>    [format]
>    usefncache = False
>
> in your hgrc to disable the fncache format for new local repos and
> keep the (pre 1.1) store format.
>

Ok this is really useful for moving forward. I'm sorry, I had seen that 
page, but skim read it, concentrating more on the top of it. I'm just new to 
hg (few days in) and didn't want to get too bogged down. 





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