How to install Mercurial on the Windows Server 2003/08

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I'd like to install Mercurial on my Windows Server. I can use either 2003/2008 depending on which is easiest to install on.

Thanks for the help fellow neckbeards!

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It's equally easy to install HG on Win2k3 and 2k8 (with the exception that you'll probably have to take the extra step on 2k8 to "run as administrator")

My favorite tutorial for Mercurial is Joel Spolsky's excellent HGInit The "Ground Up Mercurial" and "Setting Up For a Team" sections will be of the most use to you.

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Mercurial server upgrade woes

An excerpt from the HG wiki:

If an older Mercurial version tries to access a repository that was created by a newer Mercurial version, an error message like

abort: requirement 'dotencode' not supported!

may be displayed, which means the Mercurial version used to access that repository doesn't know how to interpret it, because accessing it would require knowledge about the 'dotencode' capability.

If such an error message appears, a newer Mercurial version must be used to access the repository or the repository must be converted to an older format understood by that version (by using 'hg clone --pull')

This does not sound relevant since your client version seems to be higher than the server one (I think you should double check this), but this recipe is worth trying anyway.

Python Error – Fixing PYTHONPATH Error When Installing Mercurial

I'm not sure about the precise reason for this, but I've worked around a similar problem by installing Mercurial from source (you may want to remove any Mercurial packages first, though).

Download the Mercurial tarball here and extract it:

  tar tvf mercurial-1.7.5.tar.gz
  cd mercurial-1.7.5
  python setup.py install

...this should do it. If you have several versions of python installed (2.5, 2.6, 2.7), use the latest one.

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