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What is TortoiseHg?

TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system that includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application to be able to used on non-Windows platforms.

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TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system that includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application to be able to used on non-Windows platforms.

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4.5 out of 5
"TortoiseHg - Repository Management Client Software for Mercurial"
It is a very lightweight Mercurial repository management GUI client. It has support for Mercurial repositories although they are outdated in some ...
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Dama D.
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Dama D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"TortoiseHg - Advantages and Disadvantages"
TortoiseHg is the lightest tool to perform version control. TortoiseHg will also speedily perform version control. TortoiseHg consists of very less...
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The TortoiseHg is the light and efficient tool for version control system. It's UI helps to check the errors. It's menu also gives us a easy way to...
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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

It's GUI is used for the front-end for Mercurial. And this is the best thing that TortoiseHg provides. Because it is very easy to understanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

I feel it's GUI is looking older as compare to current market. I thing this is the only dislike think but all others are very best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sorry, I don't solved any problem with TortoiseHg, that's why I can't say that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

I can filter out the files in a convenient way by using the pattern when I commit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

it seems that it takes up a lot of memory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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it's small, fast and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to control my code versions. I think it's easy to use, relatively small than other tools like git in windows; the filter function is the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

It is a very lightweight Mercurial repository management GUI client.

It has support for Mercurial repositories although they are outdated in some regions.

Open source, light weight, good community support.

Written on python - PyQT so faster tool as compared to other.

It has good support for Windows, linux etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

It has support for Mercurial repositories although they are outdated in some regions.

Tortoise GIT is similar to Tortoise Hg and has the same GUI. The Tortoise hg has support for Mercurial while they have extended it for GIT repositories also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mercurial repository GUI client helps to manage the repositories and helps to perform operations - commit, push, rollback et.

We could easily track the branches, fork the branch, create a new branch or merge the existing ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

TortoiseHg is free.donations are voluntary. It has good support for Windows, Linux, etc. Interfaces such as commit/add have a very flexible file filtering mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

Does not support branching for a single folder.Thgw.exe takes up more memory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

TortoiseHg installation is simple and convenient, 1 exe to get it (only Windows platform is considered here).WindowsServer support for SSH TortoiseGit is as troublesome as SVN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

- integration with windows

- simple UI in the GUI tool

- lightweight soft Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

- the UI is simple but its too basic and can do with some good features

- needs more open source collaboration

- less adoption in corporate setup

- need more eye friendly code comparison section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

- I was developing a project written in python. Tortoise was used in that project to manage it

- It is a very simple way to manage files and see issues without even opening the file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

It helps to compare two files while merging our code and display the updated results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

UI interface .Some times not very efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Merging code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

Simple intuitive app to deliver and pull the code from the repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

Nothing to add here; everything works fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benefits are that we can work from home or remotely via VPN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

Simplicity also in the First use test sample Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

Some times too complex for our Company needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:

Try could be useful as for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Controllino congruente of integrations with multivendors teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

this is the best tool out in the market. easy to use and very user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

Sometimes setting up is a bit complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering TortoiseHg:

Please go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

version repository and record history Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about TortoiseHg?

Familiar windows interface that I can easily check in my content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TortoiseHg?

When there's an error, the messages are somewhat cryptic, and not so easy to troubleshhot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TortoiseHg solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content version control accessible from all groups in my company make it easy to share content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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