Other Tools

Information about other tools that work with Mercurial.

1. Graphical user interfaces

• TortoiseHg - OS-level Mercurial integration on Windows (similar to TortoiseSVN), Linux (stand-alone or with Nautilus integration)

• gquilt - A PyGTK-based wrapper for quilt and mq

• gwsmhg - A PyGTK-based work space manager using hg and mq

• HgWin - A GUI-based tool similar to hgtk (requires .NET Framework v3.5 SP1 or higher)

• EasyMercurial - A simple, user-friendly cross-platform client, originally based on HgExplorer, designed with new users and straightforward setups in mind

• hgtui - A TUI-based tool written in Python

• SmartGit/Hg - A solid cross-platform client for Mercurial, Git and SVN (free for non-commercial use)

1.1. Mac-native GUIs

• MacHg - A multithreaded, fast, fully featured Mercurial client for Mac OS X 10.6+.

• MacMercurial - A GUI front end for common Mercurial operations (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)

• SourceTree - Fast & friendly client for both Mercurial and Git on Mac OS X 10.6+ (commercial)

1.2. History browsers

• HgkExtension - A port of the gitk history browser, included by default with Mercurial (requires Tcl/Tk 8.4 or later)

• hgview - qt4 or curse replacement for hgk (available on Debian or Ubuntu with apt-get install hgview)

• hg-diff - A GUI program to browse and compare mercurial revisions.

1.3. GUI diff/merge tools

• meld - A GUI diff, merge and commit tool with plugin-based SCM support

• Diffuse - A graphical merge and comparison tool with Mercurial support

1.4. Commit tools

• qct - A GUI-based commit tool, designed for portability (see also: QctExtension)

2. IDE and editor integration

2.1. IDEs with built-in support

• NetBeans - A popular IDE with built-in Mercurial support

• Komodo IDE - A multi-platform, feature-rich IDE with integrated Mercurial source code control

• IntelliJ IDEA - A Java-centered IDE with built-in Mercurial support

• Eric - A Python IDE with Mercurial support

2.2. Eclipse

• MercurialEclipse - An open source Mercurial plugin for Eclipse

• codeBeamer Eclipse Studio - Open source Eclipse plugin that integrates Mercurial and Mylyn, enabling offline work, increasing flexibility and mobility (announcement)

2.3. MS Visual Studio

• HgSccPackage - Mercurial plugin for MS Visual Studio 2008/2010. Uses mercurial command line client as backend.

• VisualHG - Mercurial plugin for MS Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. Uses TortoiseHg as backend.

2.4. Emacs

• contrib/mercurial.el - hg-mode for Emacs and Xemacs

• EmacsVcMode - Built-in support for Mercurial in Emacs 22.3 and higher

• DVC - Emacs integration for DVCS

• ahg - An Emacs front-end for the Mercurial SCM, aimed at simplicity and ease of use

2.5. VIM

• VimVcsPlugin - Plugin for several VCS with included Mercurial support

• Aurum - Plugin that provides integration between Vim and Mercurial

2.6. Other

• SublimeHg - Issue commands to Mercurial from Sublime Text 2.

• Mercurial bundle - Mercurial support for the TextMate editor

3. Project/issue tracking

• TracMercurial - Provides Mercurial integration for Trac (see HgSysTrac)

• HgTimeline - Another plugin for supporting multiple Mercurial repositories inside Trac

• TargetProcess Mercurial Plugin - Mercurial integration for TargetProcess Agile Project Management software

• Redmine - A flexible project management web application with built-in Mercurial support

• EmForge - workflow-based project management solution has support for Mercurial repositories (see Mercurial Support for details)

• InDefero - Clone of Google Code with Mercurial (also Git/Subversion) code browser, wiki, issue tracking and more

• BugzillaExtension - Automatically updating comments of bugzilla bugs when there's a reference to a bug id inside changesets

• HgLab - a Mercurial source control management system for Windows with push and pull servers, repository browser and a whole slew of other goodies.

4. Build tools

• Maven - Maven is a software project management and comprehension with built-in Mercurial support

• MercurialRecipe - zc.buildout recipe for cloning and/or pulling a Mercurial repository (also available through the Cheeseshop)

5. Code review

• ReviewBoard - Support Mercurial out-of-the-box (see also the reviewboard extension)

6. Continuous Integration

• Parabuild - A Continuous Integration and release management system with built-in support for Mercurial

• Hudson Mercurial plugin - Provides Mercurial support for Hudson

• codeBeamer - Collaborative ALM solution with Mercurial integration

7. Interoperability

• The bundled convert extension can import repositories from CVS, Subversion, Perforce, Git, and several other version control systems.

• HgSubversion - An extension to allow using Mercurial as a Subversion client

• HgGit - The Hg-Git plugin can convert commits/changesets losslessly from one system to another, so you can push via a Mercurial repository and another Mercurial client can pull it.

• tailor - A tool for converting between SCMs

• hgsvn - A set of scripts to work locally on Subversion checkouts using Mercurial

8. Miscellaneous

• Rope - A python refactoring library (file and folder changes in a project that uses Mercurial are handled)

• devtools - A set of development tools used at Logilab

• Slipper - Lets you use Mercurial and reStructuredText to back your website

• Hotwire Hg Plugin - For the Hotwire object-oriented hypershell

• ant4hg - ANT tasks for mercurial

• codeBeamer Managed Repository - Dead simple repository- and access control management for Mercurial

• hg.Net - A .Net 2.0 class library that provides asynchronous Mercurial access for your applications

• MSBuild Mercurial Tasks - The integration of Mercurial into MSBuild, the Microsoft build solution used by Visual Studio

• HgAssist - A tool that notifies you of incoming and outgoing changes in your repositories, written with .net 4.0 and published under GPL

• SCM-Manager - Web based repository and permission management for Mercurial, Subversion and Git.

• HgPreBackup - A script application to maintain copies of repositories to be used by backup software. This allows backups to be made without the backup software competing for ownership of the active repositories.

• hgcp - Copy and move files between repositories.

• BuildMaster - platform to manage the build-release-deploy cycle of all of the applications from source control through production, tightly integrates with existing toolsets, and allows for a tremendous amount of extensibility. Integrates with Mercurial.

9. See also

• RepositoryConversion - Many more tools for repository conversion/interoperability are listed here

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