Thursday, October 7, 2010 by alexandrul
TortoiseHg ships with the mercurial_keyring extension, along with Python Keyring Lib that provides Win32CryptoKeyring for Windows 2k+, allowing secure password storage.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010 by alexandrul
Tested with Mercurial 1.5.3, 1.5.4 and 1.6 on:
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86
- Windows Server 2008 R2
Unfortunately, the pager extension is a little broken on Windows, as described in issue 1677 on Mercurial issue tracker, so I have modified it to use a temporary file for storing the commands output, and then call the pager with the temporary file as a command line parameter. You can find the source code on Bitbucket and CodePlex.
My favorite pager on Windows is less.exe, which works just fine with the ANSI codes generated from the Mercurial color extension:
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 by alexandrul
On a fresh install on my PC, TortoiseHg repository explorer looks like this:

The fonts used on the blue regions can be changed as described on the TortoiseHg Frequently Asked Questions page:
[gtools]
# font used in changeset viewer and commit log text
fontcomment = Tahoma 8
# font used for diffs in status and commit tools
fontdiff = Courier New 10
# font used in file lists in status and commit tools
fontlist = Tahoma 8
# font used in command output window
fontlog = Courier New 10
However, the only way I could find to change the font used to display the revision ID is to alter the monospace alias in {TortoiseHg folder}\gtk\etc\pango\pango.aliases:
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Sunday, January 24, 2010 by alexandrul
Source code / binaries / GUI
Setting up Mercurial servers on IIS
Setting up Mercurial servers on Nginx
Setting up Mercurial servers on Apache
Setting up Mercurial servers
Remote repositories
Mercurial - Visual Studio integration
Mercurial - Git integration
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