Late in 2010 I wanted to try the Distributed Revision Control and began by picking Mercurial and starting a project on Google Code. I chose Mercurial instead of Git because from what I was reading at the time Mercurial seemed to be simpler and had better integration with Windows. That Windows integration for me took the form of using TortoiseHg. My experience has been very positive so far, and I am considering moving my CodePlex projects from TFS to Mercurial in the future.
A few days ago, a new version of TortoiseHg has been available and I wanted to share my experiences in upgrading from TortoiseHg 1.1.7 to TortoiseHg 2.0.
Downloading TortoiseHg 2.0
You can get download the binaries from here: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ . Please do be aware that you?ll need to download a specific installer depending on whether you have an x86 or x64 bit Windows OS.
Installation Notes
I uninstalled TortoiseHg 1.1.7 first. For some reason it claimed I needed to reboot ? irritating but OK. I rebooted. Then I installed TortoiseHg 2.0. Nothing surprising in the install. Screenshots below.
Install
Getting the Overlay Icons to Show
After installing, the overlay status icons we no longer visible in my repository. I rebooted and the icons then appeared.
The TortoiseHg 2.0 User Experience
Here are a few screenshots. Key things to notice is the new ?TortoiseHg Workbench?
Overcoming Initial Problems in Pulling and Pushing
Of course, the first thing I tried was to click on the Pull icon in the Sync UI. Surprisingly this did not ?Just Work?
Instead I received an error about a ?nonumeric port?
% hg --repository D:\saveenr\code\google_code\saveenr pull --verbose https://saveenr@gmail.com:***@saveenr.googlecode.com/hg/
URLError: nonnumeric port: 'MYPASSWORD@saveenr.googlecode.com'
[command returned code 255 Fri Mar 04 01:35:17 2011]
For an experienced Mercurial user, this may be very obvious but for a novice such as myself this was rather confusing. After a few minutes of experimentation I resolved this by clicking on the Lock Icon ?
And then setting the security options to this?
After that, pushes and pulls worked perfectly.
Reference: Screenshots from TortoiseHg 1.1.7
To help you see the difference in the new version below are some screenshots from the previous version I had installed.
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