Mercurial on Windows

Just a dumping ground for now; will get more structure later.

Binary installers for Windows exist; you probably want 0.9.4, or some newer released versions. I had problems with the latest 0.9.4+ snapshot.

In general, things will just work (assuming the Mercurial dir is in your path); there are some oddities with line endings here and there (e.g. hg export will use DOS line endings in the generated patch, while MQ-generated patches don't).

If you want to make hg view work:

• install ActiveTcl, and make sure you tell it to associate .tcl with ActiveTcl
• add the hgk extension to your list of extensions in ~/Mercurial.ini
• grab hgk from here (this is a link to a snapshot in the crew repo; there may be newer ones, but the Windows installer does not have hgk packaged). Save this file somewhere in your path, and rename it to hgk.tcl.
• in your Mercurial.ini, add:

[hgk]
path=C:\Users\vladimir\bin\hgk.tcl

and hg view should work.