Comments on: TortoiseHg as a github client on Windows

By: Lazy Badger

Lazy Badger — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:12:52 +0000

No luck with PUSH on current TortoiseHG and hg-git (thg 2.0.5 – hg-git b8eeabb61c7b)
% hg –repository C:\TEMP\Elgg.git push git+ssh://git@github.com/lazybadger/Elgg.git
pushing to git+ssh://git@github.com/lazybadger/Elgg.git
creating and sending data
abort: Invalid argument
[command returned code 255 Sun Jun 19 18:10:44 2011]

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:46:13 +0000

Excellent resource!

I agree with Trond, however, in that it didn’t work unless I did the following:

1) Copy my “c:\Apps\Hg\TortoisePlink.exe” to “c:\Apps\Hg\ssh.exe”
2) Update the “[ui]” section of “c:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Mercurial.ini” with:

ssh = “c:\Apps\Hg\ssh.exe”

Once I did these two things… it worked like a charm!!!

Thanks,

Steve

By: Trond

Trond — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:27:57 +0000

I needed to make a copy of TortoisePlink.exe as ssh.exe and update the config file, since it couldn’t locate the TortoisePlink.exe file when using ssh in the url. Works fine now though.

Source:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573571/cloning-a-read-write-github-repository-using-tortoisehg