Mercurial pager with color support on Windows

Sunday, 16 May 2010 by alexandrul
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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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TortoiseHg custom fonts

Tuesday, 4 May 2010 by alexandrul
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On a fresh install on my PC, TortoiseHg repository explorer looks like this:

tortoisehg-fresh-install.png

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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Mercurial resources

Sunday, 24 January 2010 by alexandrul
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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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