Any complete GUI interface for Mercurial?

Question

I've tried TortoiseHG from the repositories, but it wasn't working at all.

Solution 1

Add the following PPAs to your Software Sources, instructions are at the link endpoints:

https://launchpad.net/~tortoisehg-ppa/+archive/releases

https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases

Or do it via the command line.

ppa:tortoisehg-ppa/releases (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.)

ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.)

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tortoisehg-ppa/releases
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases

Install tortoisehg, and tortoisehg-nautilus if you want nautilus integration.

$ sudo apt-get install tortoisehg tortoisehg-nautilus

Use hgtk as though it were the usual hg command to get a GUI interface for each command (e.g. hgtk status), or use the interface provided in nautilus if you installed the requisite package.

Solution 2

hg view is installed as part of the mercurial package, but not enabled by default to keep the package from depending on the tk toolkit. Install tk8.5, and the add the following to your "$HOME/.hgrc" file:

[extensions]
hgk=

Launch by running hg view in the repository folder.

Solution 3

meld does a pretty decent job. Just install it like this:

sudo apt-get install meld

And run it with:

meld

Then select "Version control view" and point it at the directory with your repository. It will show you all the changed files and you can view a visual diff by double clicking the file.

Comments

[red.clover]

You might want to be more descriptive about the problem you had with TortoiseHG.

[Queops]

Didn't react to any of the "menu" commands I selected.

[red.clover]

They work for me on 10.10. Make sure that you also have tortoisehg-nautilus installed. Also nautilus has to be restarted.

[Queops]

Exactly as you told. Nothing happens when I click options or Clone... for example.. very weird. EDIT: Does work if you input the commands on console, not through menu.

[RusGraf]

@Queops Have you filed a bug about this problem?

[Reno]

askubuntu.com/questions/10331/…

[Queops]

Nice handy PPAs

[magister]

When I try to install tortoisehg I got the following message : The following packages have unmet dependencies: tortoisehg : Depends: mercurial (< 2.5~) but 2.5-0ppa1~precise1 is to be installed Recommends: python-iniparse but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[Jonathan]

Doing this works fine: sudo apt-get install tortoisehg tortoisehg-nautilus No need for PPAs anymore (Ubuntu 15)

[Martin Pecka]

I needed to put the path to hgk.py into $HOME/.hgrc, ie. hgk=/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgext/hgk.py.