Even though it's documented here and here the Mercurial-Easy project aims at providing a set of cool tools to make your life easier.

Mercurial Easy provides command-line GUIs for commiting and merging (operations you surely do daily), which provide both instant feedback, useful information and easy of use.

Also, you can enjoy the fact that these tools are written in Python too and are released under the BSD license.

We've been enjoying Mercurial-Easy since 2006 !

See it for yourself !

First you should get the latest tarball if you don't alrady have it. Of course you need Python and Mercurial too (but we don't support 0.9.5 yet).

Then, you can unpack your tarball, cd into it, and start doing this:

 python setup.py install

or

 python setup.py intall --prefix=~/where/you/want

You will then have the following modules installed:

• easyhg the Mercurial-Easy project
• urwid a library required by Mercurial-Easy
• urwide another library also required by Mercurial-Easy
• easymerge.py which is a script that you should use when mergeing

To know where Mercurial-Easy is installed, simply do:

python -c 'import os,easyhg;print os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(easyhg.__file__))'

For me it will tell you that it is installed here:

/Users/sebastien/Local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/easyhg

You can now edit your ~/.hgrc file:

[ui]
mergetool = ~/Projects/Mercurial-Easy/Sources/easyhg/easymerge.py

[extensions]
# Mercurial-Easy tools
commit    = ~/Projects/Mercurial-Easy/Sources/easyhg/easycommit.py
changes   = ~/Projects/Mercurial-Easy/Sources/easyhg/easychanges.py
project   = ~/Projects/Mercurial-Easy/Sources/easyhg/easyproject.py

And you can disable any of these, of course !