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Git AND MERCURIAL client. There's not a single decent Mercurial client on Windows. EasyMercurial is better than nothing, but not by much.

We a few .Net projects, (we mainly do Python), some of the projects we haven't even bothered moving from Subversion, because of the lack of good Windows Mercurial clients.

Having SourceTree on both Mac and Windows is huge to us.

EDIT: Just realized that they didn't include Mercurial support yet. Then I don't care at all.

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SourceTree support for Windows is coming. We're implementing Mercurial support now and will release ASAP. We decided to put the product in the hands of everyone soon as we had a usable product.

TortoiseHg is an awesome Mercurial client, what are you talking about?

I can't speak for mrweasel, but in my experience, TortoiseHg struggles with performance on large repos, with basic operations (like refreshing the list of modified files in the Commit window) taking many seconds to complete. It consumes a lot of memory while idle (around 500MB on my machine), often becomes unresponsive or crashes, progress bars only represent the lowest level operations, not overall progress (eg: checking out a repo containing subrepos results in the bar going from start to finish several times), etc, etc.

It's not terrible by any means, but I'm interested to see what other clients can bring to the party.

Excessive TortoiseHG user here. Many rather large repos with multiple branches, tags, forks, etc. All hg processes together take less than 130 MB RAM. I don't recall having any crash at all in the last few years, nor did it become unresponsive, not even on my old TP60 (2007).

TortoiseHg was and possibly still is the best graphical VCS extension, and Mercurial, being written in Python, has always been better on Windows than Git.

TortoiseHG is pretty awesome, it has everything you could possibly need. You should try it.

Have you tried the mercurial command line? I find it very easy to use, it has a low barrier to get entry, and works the same on all platforms.

Thank you for explaining this point. It made my mind too :)

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