Comments on: A guide to getting the hg-git Mercurial plugin to work on a Windows machine

By: Blog Author

Blog Author — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:25:42 +0000

Thanks, I’ve updated the article and credited you in the troubleshooting section.

By: SPR

SPR — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:12:15 +0000

Was banging my head against the “abort: The system cannot find the file specified” error. Followed this excellent article to the letter. Tried a couple of others which all suggested a similar approach. No joy. Then, finally, squirreled away in a google discussion group – the answer…

I was using the Windows command line dialog. This was the problem. Try typing ‘git’ and it works. Try typing ‘git.exe’ and it fails because the git installation actually uses ‘git.cmd’ to fire off instructions. But hggit / Dulwich / Python goes looking for ‘git.exe’, cannot find it and blows up with the all too familiar error (if only it could have displayed which file it could not find).

The solution is to use the Git Bash shell which does recognize ‘git.exe’.

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By: Brian Panulla

Brian Panulla — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:04:42 +0000

Thanks for this post! One update: looks like Dulwich is included in recent builds of TortoiseHg. All I needed to do was clone hg-git, add it to hgrc, and go.

By: Michael Gatto

Michael Gatto — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:23:15 +0000

I use Bitvise’s Tunnelier and it seems one could alias ‘ssh’ to Tunnelier’s ‘sexec’ instead of having to install Cygwin, which I really don’t want to do. I’ll try it and report back unless anyone knows a really good reason not to.

By: jbochi

jbochi — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:28:59 +0000

Thank you! I was receiveing the “File not found.” error because Cygwin’s OpenSSH was not installed

By: SzRudi

SzRudi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:30:41 +0000

Thanks a lot! (especially for step 2.)

I just didn’t know what to do after reading the official pages of hg-git.. Why couldn’t they just write it simply like you did.. Thanks again!