Hackable Mercurial for Windows

An approach to easily hack on the Mercurial source on Windows.

1. What is the Hackable package?

Compiling Mercurial is a significant barrier to testing and developing Mercurial on Windows. This package attempts to minimize that barrier by including:

2. Downloading and using

The package can be found here. Simply download, unzip, and run the included hg.exe. This package will not interfere with your existing Mercurial or Python installation.

<!> There is usually no need to download new copies between releases, simply pull and update.

/!\ This package includes no global configuration, so if you're not already using Mercurial, you will need to configure your username and merge tools.

3. How it's built and how to build your own from scratch

Needed components:

Steps:

4. See also


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