How do I correctly install dulwich to get hg-git working on Windows?
Solution 1:
That makes me think dulwich is not installed correctly, or not in the path.
You're absolutely right. Mercurial binary distributions for Windows are 'frozen' - they use the Python code and interpreter bundled with them and therefore independent of packages installed in system PYTHONPATH. When you specify path to hggit extension in Mercurial.ini, hg tries to import it using direct path, but dulwich library is not imported explicitly by hg and doesn't bundled with its library, so the import fails.
It is possible to add both Dulwich and HgGit into library.zip that is installed along with hg.exe, but for me the best way is to install everything from source including Mercurial and execute commands using .bat files installed into \Python\Scripts. In this case you will need to:
- Install Mercurial from source. This builds "pure" version, because Windows users usually don't have Visual Studio or alternative compiler for compiling C speedups.
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Install Dulwich - I'd use latest trunk snapshot for both Git and Dulwich.
python setup.py --pure install
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Install latest HgGit snapshot
python setup.py install
Edit Mercurial.ini to enable
hggit =- Launch Mercurial using your \Python\Scripts\hg.bat
Solution 2:
I found a simpler solution at http://candidcode.com/2010/01/12/a-guide-to-converting-from-mercurial-hg-to-git-on-a-windows-client/
And then I found a yet simpler solution myself:
To use the hg-git Mercurial extension on Windows:
- install the official Mercurial binaries
- put dulwich folder from dulwich sources and hggit folder from hg-git sources to the root of library.zip in Mercurial installation folder
- add the following to %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini:
[extensions]
hgext.bookmarks=
hggit=
To have SSH support you need plink.exe from PuTTY family. After that you should add the following to Mercurial.ini:
[ui]
username = John Doe <[email protected]>
ssh=d:/home/lib/dll/plink.exe -i "d:/home2/ssh-private-key.ppk"
When connecting to a SSH server for the first time, you should start putty.exe and try to connect using it. It will add the server key fingerprint to the registry. Otherwise plink will ask you to accept the fingerprint but it doesn't accept any input.
You can use puttygen.exe to generate private keys. Either use keys without a passphrase or use Pageant.exe ssh authentication agent.
Solution 3:
If you can install TortoiseHg, it includes dulwich and other requirements.
Solution 4:
Try following configuration (change to your path), which works for me:
[extensions]
; hg-git extention
hgext.bookmarks =
hggit = C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\hg_git-0.2.1-py2.6.egg\hggit
In my case when I have empty value for hggit =, I get the same error as you do in this case. But I can import dulwich without problem in python shell, so you should check your easy-install.pth (as pointed out by David) if it contains dulwich-0.5.0-py2.5.egg.
I did install pure version of dulwich as well.
Solution 5:
I got this error as well even after downloading the latest Tortoisehg and making sure the hggit plugin was installed as well as my .ini & hgrc files had the right entry to enable hggit.
Turns out my problem was that I had both mercurial and tortoisehg in my path. So when I ran any hg commands, it was using the hg.exe in mercurial folder as opposed to the hg.exe in the torsoisehg directory.
This makes sense but my mercurial installation did not have the plug ins. My fix was to remove mercurial from my path so hg commands go through the tortoisehg directory since it has hg completely bundled. Note however, the recommended option might be to upgrade mercurual to a version that has the plugins that one needs but this is what worked for me. I tried replacing the library.zip in mercurial with the one in tortoisehg and this worked but it led to other errors as one would imagine.
@techtonik's answer led me down this road for which I am grateful.
Recap: verify which hg exe is running your hg commands by checking your path because that hg.exe does not find the plugins for whatever reason.