TortoiseHg

TortoiseHg: Windows shell extension featuring a series of apps for the Mercurial control system

Windows shell extension featuring a series of apps for the Mercurial control system

TortoiseHg is a Windows shells extension that packs a series of programs for the Mercurial distributed revision control system and it also features Gnome and Nautilus extensions support as well as CLI wrapper application so its tools can be ported and used on other platforms different from Windows.

This unique shell extension allows users of Mercurial SCM (Hg) to work on their shell extensions directly from Microsoft Windows Explorer.

Gnome and Natuilus integration is supported as well. Supported platform are Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Command line support is featured via THG. Mac OS X port is available via souce installer. When using TortoiseHG it is recommended that indexing service on the working copies and repositories is turned off, and they should also be excluded from anti-virus scans.