Tortoise-Hg (mercurial) does not find hg-git

Question

I have Tortoise Hg installed on my Windows box, and have been using mercurial via the Tortoise GUI and also from the windows commandline. I installed hg-git as recommended on http://hg-git.github.com/ : Using easy_install hg-git , which built the package with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008. There were no error messages and the build reported success.

I then added the extension to the configuration file. But TortoiseHg still doesn't accept git urls, and when I run hg from the commandline, I get:

*** failed to import extension hggit: No module named hggit

Now, python does know about hggit and will find it if I type import hggit at the interpreter (it fails when hggit tries to import mercurial). I understand that TortoiseHg provides it own python environment, so my question is: How do I install hggit so that it is visible to the tortoise-distributed mercurial? Or am I misdiagnosing the problem?

Answer 1

How did you reference the extension in the .hgrc file ?

If you just did

[extensions]
hggit= 

Try adding the complete path to the extension :

[extensions]
hggit = [path-to]/hg-git/hggit

This should tell TortoiseHg exactly where to look and bypass any difference of configuration between the command line and the gui.