How to use Tortoisehg (mercurial GUI) to push on Github

Why ?

I like git when working with Linux but in my opinion git is clearly not ready on Windows. As on my job I work with Windows and at home I mainly work with Linux, so overtime I got used to Mercurial.

In addition, It was actually fun to connect both worlds.

Install tortoisehg

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/

Convert your Github private to be usable with pageant

How to convert a private key generated by ssh-keygen

Install hg-git

It’s the plugin that allow to make it work :

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git c:\work\hg-git

Enable the hg-git plugin

Edit your Mercurial.ini (in C:\Users``) to add this line

[extensions]
hggit = C:\work\hg-git\hggit

Check

Check that both Pageant and your private key are loaded

Pull & Push

You can now try to pull a Github repository with this URL :

git+ssh://git@github.com/your-github-username/your-repo-name.git

Enjoy !

Edit

In case of problem you can read Error on cloning a Github repository with Mercurial to avoid wasting too much time.