Using mercurial on windows.

Pulkit Goyal 7895pulkit at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 21:16:02 UTC 2019


Hey everyone,

Hope you are doing good.

In past few weeks, I have been playing with mercurial on windows. During
that time, I realised why windows support is so hard and was quite proud
that hg support windows. Huge thanks to all the people who work on this.

Now, I know things work because there is a windows buildbot which we try to
keep green. I tested, most of the times it works fine. But I was bit
shocked to find there was no good documentation on how mercurial can be
used on windows, what's preferred way to use, and what works and what does
not, what config knobs should be set, how to get started.

After sometime of fighting with windows, here I am looking for suggestions
on how one can use mercurial on windows smoothly and what are the
recommended ways. Like shall I use MYSYS, did things will work in cmd.exe?

If anyone can shed some light on their experiences and tips and tricks on
how to use mercurial on windows, that will be great!

I promise to convert all the relevant information I get on this thread and
some which I accumulated while testing into a wiki page.

Thanks and regards
Pulkit
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