hgsubversion: Installing on Windows

I use Windows primarily, and it's not easy to install Mercurial extensions there if they are not bundled with Mercurial installer itself. I am using plain .msi installer, which doesn't include hgsubversion, so I'll show you how to get this extension in place manually. Suppose you have Mercurial installed into C:\Mercurial Go there and notice library.zip archive. This is where you should add hgsubversion. library.zip has the following structure: / +-- email +-- encodings +-- hgext +-- logging ... __future__.pyc _abcoll.pyc _elementtree.pyd ... zipextimporter.pyc zipfile.pyc Contents of this archive is the whole Mercurial code. Code is written in Python, and is compiled into .pyc and .pyd files for speed and packed into library.zip for convenience. For interpreted languages like Python it is not necessary to compile source files for execution, but they did it. Get latest hgsubversion sources from http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgsubversion/src by pressing link "get source" in upper right corner. Or download released version from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hgsubversion/1.1.2 Unpack archive. You should have directory structure like: / +-- hgsubversion +-- notes +-- tests +-- tools .hgignore ... setup.py Now put hgsubversion/ dir from this structure into library.zip archive, inside hgext/ directory, where Mercurial expects to find its extensions. Enable extension by uncommenting line ";hgsubversion =" in Mercurial.ini that is usually located in your profile directory, i.e. C:\Users\yourname If it is not there - copy one from your C:\Mercurial\hgrc.d directory. Try to checkout some subversion repository. You will get an error like this: C:\p>hg clone http://google-twitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk (falling back to static-http) (falling back to Subversion support) destination directory: trunk abort: subvertpy 0.7.3 or later required, but not found! You need Subversion bindings for Python. They advertise subvertpy, but it is also possible to use official bindings. Those bindings is just a set of libraries that allows Python scripts to use Subversion binary code directly. Unfortunately, after migration to apache.org, Subversion bindings are not compiled anymore, so there is no official place where you can download them. But thanks to http://alagazam.net/ it is possible to get unofficial . Download svn-win32-1.6.12_py.zip or more up-to-date distribution and extract it. You will get a directory structure like: / +-- python +-- libsvn +-- svn README.txt In libsvn/ rename _client.dll to _client.pyd. Do the same with _core.dll, _delta.dll, _ra.dll Maybe you'll have to rename other .dll files, but these were enough for me. Now put svn/ and libsvn/ into the library.zip directly in the root. I also had to copy intl3_svn.dll from an old 1.6.6 installation of SVN into library.zip root (you may find this file in Windows binaries archive from http://alagazam.net/) and place libsvn_swig_py-1.dll from libsvn/ dir also in library.zip root. It should work now.