TortoiseHg was designed to be a shell extension that let users of Mercurial SCM (Hg) work directly from MS-Windows Explorer.
It also includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application so the TortoiseHg tools can be used on non-Windows platforms.
Note:
Like TortoiseSVN, it is recommended to turn off the indexing service on the working copies and repositories, and exclude them from virus scans.
What's New in This Release:
Bug Fixes:
· update: fix unicode error on confirmation of bookmarks (fixes #2341)
· repotreemodel: recover from missing element (closes #1075)
· repotreemodel: remove unsafe processEvents() during loadSubrepos() (fixes #2256)
· status: respect filter text when the file list is refreshed
· bookmark, branchop, tag: work around case-insensitive completion of QComboBox
· qtlib: make sure getCurrentUsername() not fall back to system value
· purge: move completed() handlers to instance to avoid GC issue (fixes #2386)
· bisect: ask cmdui.Widget() to create a status bar (fixes #2390)
· guess: keep similarity as raw value for sorting (fixes #1332)
Improvements:
· change selection in the commit tool
· startup performance improvements (closes #940)
· cleanup menu and title strings
· blockmatcher: make BlockList clickable
· commit, revdetails: change splitter style to make it easier to see on Windows
· cmdui: prettify command-line string for display (closes #1529)
· fileview, shelve: add 'Display the file anyway' link when f...