Ian Lewis 4/4/2008

Using mercurial on windows with cygwin

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The article details the author's personal experience using Mercurial version control on a Windows system. Initially, they used the Mercurial package within Cygwin, believing it was necessary for Unix-like path handling. They later discovered that TortoiseHG's native Windows executable handles paths correctly, leading them to switch. The post compares the two setups, discusses command-line usability, and notes performance on network drives.

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