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Hgtk

TortoiseHg comes with a simple python application, hgtk, which allows you to launch the TortoiseHg dialogs on any platform that supports Mercurial and PyGtk. This is the easiest way to start using TortoiseHg on Linux and Mac OS X.

Packages

You may be able to find RPM and DEB packages on the download page. If not, please use the source method.

From Source

Install Mercurial (consult the chart at the bottom of ReleaseNotes for version info)
Clone the TortoiseHg repository: hg clone http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable tortoisehg
Symlink the hgtk script into your path: ln -s /path/to/tortoisehg/hgtk ~/bin

That is usually all you have to do. You should now be able to launch the TortoiseHg dialogs. If you move the tortoisehg repository, just remember to update the /bin/hgtk symlink.

Do NOT run setup.py, it is unnecessary

If you want to use the stable branch, run (inside the repository): hg update stable
If you want translations, run (inside the repository): python setup.py build_mo

To use the settings tool (repoconfig, userconfig) you must have http://code.google.com/p/iniparse/ installed.

Tarballs

We do not suggest that you run from a tarball, even though we make one available for download. The tarball is only intended for use by distribution packagers. We prefer you use a local clone of TortoiseHg instead. If you do use a tarball, you may need to delete thgutil/config.py* to remove the hard-coded paths. If you run setup.py from a tarball, you will likely need to edit the installed thgutil/config.py.

Using Hgtk

Running hgtk without any arguments tells you what dialogs are available. For instance:

# hgtk
Hgtk - TortoiseHg's GUI tools for Mercurial SCM (Hg)

basic commands:

 about        about TortoiseHg
 add          add files
 clone        clone tool
 commit       commit tool
 datamine     repository search and annotate tool
 guess        guess previous renames or copies
 hgignore     ignore filter editor
 init         repository initialization tool
 log          changelog viewer
 merge        merge tool
 recovery     recover, rollback & verify
 remove       file status viewer in revert mode
 rename       rename a single file or directory
 repoconfig   repository configuration editor
 revert       file status viewer in revert mode
 serve        web server
 shelve       shelve/unshelve tool
 status       file status viewer
 synch        repository synchronization tool
 update       update/checkout tool
 userconfig   user configuration editor
 vdiff        launch configured visual diff tool
 version      output version and copyright information

use "hgtk help" for the full list of commands or "hgtk -v" for details

hgtk uses Mercurial's command matching logic to support abbreviated command names. For instance, hgtk ci will launch the commit dialog.

See the Debugging Dialogs section of developers/Debugging for debug hints.

Using Hgtk On Windows

If you are using a TortoiseHg binary install, hgtk.exe is already installed and in your path.

If you are using TortoiseHg from a source install, then you may need to create an hgtk.bat file with

python \path\to\tortoisehg\hgtk %*'

Prerequisites, Versions

TortoiseHg Windows packages include GTK+ 2.16, PyGtk 2.12, and Python 2.5.

We target PyGtk 2.12 for development, but explicitly support PyGtk 2.10 since some long-life Linux distributions (RedHat, CentOS) still ship with 2.10. We require pygobject > 2.12.1 because of a bug that is present in earlier releases. See http://www.mail-archive.com/tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06900.html

PyGtk-2.16 generates deprecation warnings for tooltips. This will be resolved in the next release. If you enable stderr capture, these warnings will be hidden.

TortoiseHg should work on Python 2.4 or later, the same restriction as Mercurial.

Consult the chart at the bottom of ReleaseNotes for Mercurial version info

This revision is from 2010-03-12 17:22

tortoisehg / stable (http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/)