I have used Puttygen to create a public and a private key, and then is ready to let TortoiseHg on Windows 7 do a clone by going to 

    ssh://somebody@code.somewhere.com/somecode

but there seems to be no where to add the private key to TortoiseHg?  (or even just the mercurial command line)

The file is already some where on hard disk as somefile.ppk   Does someone know how to add it?


How to let TortoiseHg (Mercurial) on Windows use the Private Key file generated (by Puttygen)?

I just install TortoiseHg, to act as Mercurial client tool.

However, in my Vista, whenever I start, there is a `TortoiseHg Overlay Icon Server` at my notification bar.

Is quite annoying. What is the purpose of that? Can I disable it?

What is TortoiseHg Overlay Icon Server

I am working in a small organisation, only two developers and we use Mercurial version control `tortoisehg-2.2.2-hg-2.0.2-x86`. I am new to mercurial.

Consider `programmerA`, `programmerB`.

In `programerA` machine I created a repository and a client with name `&quot;EFSL&quot;`.
`programmerB` is simply a client with name `&quot;Uthaya Kumar&quot;` pointing at `programmerA` machine repository.

When I am pulling change set in `programmerA` machine it creates a new branch,
and it also shows `&quot;Not a head revision!&quot;` error in both working directory and repository.

In `programmerB` it is fine.

Please see the screenshots below.

Thanks in advance.


![Screen Shot 1][2]
![Screen Shot 2][3]
![Screen Shot 3][4]


  [1]: http://www.keepandshare.com/photo/451672/not-a-head-revision?fv=y&amp;ifr=&amp;vo=lt
  [2]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/r3nWw.jpg
  [3]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/usq75.jpg
  [4]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Kde0i.jpg

&quot;Not a head revision!&quot; in Mercurial Hg

I downloaded TortoiseHg 1.0 for evaluation.  For the life of me I can&#39;t figure out how to make a branch.  It seems to understand branches (e.g. in its repository browser) but I just can&#39;t seem to find a way to make a branch.  This seems like such a fundamental capability since out of the often touted benefits of DVC is the lightweight branching.

I Googled around and couldn&#39;t find much discussion of this topic (at least for recent versions) so I have to assume I&#39;m missing something, right?

**Update:** So I flagged Chad Birch&#39;s answer below to answer the &quot;new branch&quot; issue.  As he correctly points out, you do a commit and then click on the branch button to bring up the branch maintenance dialog which is where you create new branches.  I kind of wish they had given us a context menu option for this.  Once you&#39;ve branched, the next natural question is how to merge and this is also not obvious.  It turns out that option is buried in the repository explorer.  You need to select the head of another branch, right-click and then select &quot;Merge with...&quot;.

How to branch with TortoiseHG

Is there a way to configure [TortoiseHg][1] to store my password?

I have a project hosted on [Google Code][2] that I access using TortoiseHg. Whenever I want to push changes to Google Code TortoiseHg prompts me for a username and password. Google Code requires me to use an auto-generated password, and it gets quite repetitive to look it up every time.


  [1]: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/
  [2]: http://code.google.com/

Store password in TortoiseHg

How can I undo my last accidentally commited (not pushed) change in Mercurial?

If possible, a way to do so with TortoiseHg would be prefered.

**Update**

In my concrete case I commited a changeset (not pushed). Then I pulled and updated from the server. With these new updates I decided, that my last commit is obsolete and I don&#39;t want to sync it. So it seems, that `hg rollback` is not exactly what I&#39;m searching for, because it would rollback the pull instead of my commit.

Mercurial undo last commit

I&#39;ve been developing a java application using git as source code repository. I&#39;d like to share the project with other java developers and hg seems to be most used by them. 

My question is how do I convert a git repository to hg?

If I tried googling &quot;convert git to hg&quot; and every search hit is about converting from hg to git. I&#39;m also using [TortoiseHg][1].


  [1]: http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/

How do I convert a git repository to mercurial?

TortoiseHg allows you to email a patch file of your changes to someone, but does it support applying patches?

If so, how do you apply a patch using TortoiseHg?


TortoiseHg Apply a Patch

What is the difference between the mercurial commands, 

 - `hg strip`
 - `hg backout`
 - `hg revert`

All these commands basically are used to revert/undo the effects of an earlier changeset. 

hg strip vs hg backout and hg revert

In Mercurial/TortoiseHg, given the following example, what is the easiest way to merge revision &quot;G&quot; into repo A without taking D,E and F (Assume that G has no dependency on D,E or F).  

    Repo A: A - B - C

    Repo B (Clone of A) A - B - C - D - E - F - G

Is a patch the best bet?

How do I cherry-pick a single revision in Mercurial?

I am currently using TortoiseHg (Mercurial) and accidentally committed an incorrect commit message. How do I go about editing this commit message in the repository?


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