How do I correctly install dulwich to get hg-git working on Windows?

Question

I\'m trying to use the hg-git Mercurial extension on Windows (Windows 7 64-bit, to be specific). I have Mercurial and Git installed. I have Python 2.5 (32-bit) installed.

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Answer 1

Had this problem today when installing the latest TortoiseHg.

Get the latest python 2.7 (I used 2.7.16) setup on your system, you probably have this already. Get a command window and go to the c:\Python27 folder To run pip use Scripts\pip or easy_install use Scripts\easy_install Try pip -V to make sure you get the 2.7 version and not some 3.X version

Wrong:

c:\Python27>pip -V
pip 20.2.4 from c:\python38\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.8)

Right:

c:\Python27>Scripts\pip -V
pip 20.2.4 from c:\python27\lib\site-packages\pip (python 2.7)

If dulwich or hg-git are installed already

Scripts\pip uninstall dulwich
Scripts\pip uninstall hg-git

Install hg-git

Scripts\easy_install install hg-git

You should now have two folders

C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\dulwich-0.19.16-py2.7-win-amd64.egg\dulwich
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\hg_git-0.9.0-py2.7.egg\hggit

It will only work if Dulwich is version 0.19.16 (less than 0.20.x)

Copy these folders (dulwich and hggit) into the zip-file C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\lib\library.zip

folder in zip file