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TortoiseHg Introduction
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:synopsis: Introduce TortoiseHg and its various parts
TortoiseHg is a set of graphical tools and a shell extension for the
`Mercurial <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial>`_ distributed revision control
system.
On Windows,
TortoiseHg consists of a shell extension, which provides overlay
icons and context menus in your file explorer, and a command line
program named hgtk.exe which can launch the TortoiseHg tools.
Binary packages of TortoiseHg for Windows come with Mercurial and a
merge tool and are thus completely ready for use "Out of the Box".
On Linux,
TortoiseHg consists of a command line hgtk script, and a Nautilus
extension which provides overlays and context menus in your file
explorer.
TortoiseHg is primarily written in Python and PyGtk (the Windows shell
extension being a noticeable exception). The hgtk script can be used
on any platform that supports PyGtk, including Mac OS X.
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