Setup Mercurial GUI Client on Ubuntu 10.10
Recently Bitbucket introduced new plans, which allows unlimited private repositories for startups (Less than 5 contributors). This works really well for me, when I decide to use a dvcs and want to avoid the Github paid plans for private repo hosting.
Command line is nice, but somehow, I still prefer a GUI client to see my diffs, as its more productive for me. So Lets get started..
(All the commands are for the terminal/shell)
Step 1: Add the Tortoise ppa to your system
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tortoisehg-ppa/releases
Step 2: Update the system Package List
sudo apt-get update
Step 3: Install Tortoisehg Client
sudo apt-get install tortoisehg
Step 4: Enable Tortoisehg and Nautilus Integration
- Open System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
- Search Tortoise on the quick search, and then mark and apply the TortoiseHg-nautilus
- Open terminal and type nautilus -q
Now you should be able to see a context item when you right click inside any folder. Thats it. We are done!
