Portable version of Mercurial 1.5.1

[Steve Borho]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've searched for a portable version of Mercurial -- a version that you
> can put on a USB stick and then run on all (Windows) computers without
> having to install it first and especially without having admin rights.
>
> It turns out there is a community for such things... as always on the
> Internet :-) They had already made a trial package for version 1.4.3 and
> I asked a guy there if he could make an updated version. Which he could:
>
>  http://portableapps.com/node/23367
>
> But I'm not really using Windows after all, so I hope someone on this
> list can test it instead. Please let me know how it works -- I'll add a
> comment on the site linking to this thread.
>
>
> The next step would be to do the same for TortoiseHg... without knowing
> much about Windows, I don't expect to be able to run the shell
> integration. But even just having hgtk in a command prompt would be a
> great step forward.

hgtk.exe should be mostly functional from just a copy of the
${PF}\TortoiseHg folder.  It looks for icons, etc, relative to it's
executable.  Three things to be aware of:

# You need the MSVC90 redist installed, or package the DLL in your directory
# As installed, it expects to find kdiff3.exe in $PATH.  You'll have
to address this.
# It also expects to find TortoisePlink.exe in $PATH

The rest should just work, obviously minus the shell extensions.

--
Steve Borho