TortoiseHg (Mercurial) can not find hggit extension

Question

I'm trying to get the hg-git extension to work with TortoiseHg (v5.8 on Win10). I have enabled the "hggit" extension in the settings. But when I try to push to github I get an error:

*** failed to import extension hggit: No module named hggit

Searching my drives I only have on hg executable in the TortoiseHg directory but can not find any hggit or hg-git binaries. Is there something else one have to do to get the extension working?

Answer 1

UPDATE - a beta release of THG 6.1.2 apparently has restored hggit and is available now:

https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5752#note_185806

I haven't tried it yet myself.

That post also notes:

The plan is for a py3 installer to be available with the next major release [in July 2022]

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Original answer:

Apparently at the moment THG has the option to include hggit in the settings, but does not actually package hggit itself.

According to Matt Harbison, one of the contributors/maintainers of TortoiseHG:

I took [hggit] out because it was always lagging behind changes in core hg, and its dependencies broke stuff.

He goes on to add:

install by simply running py -2 -m pip install hg-git --user if you have python2 installed on your system.

Another person (Aurélien Campéas) states the following for using Python 3:

with python 3 and a plain "pip install mercurial hg-git" and it just works

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Further, this other post by Keith Turkowski describes a full installation of THG and hggit with Python3 on Windows:

• Install python-3.9.2-amd64.exe (if you want to use Python 3 and have Python.exe in the path)

• Install putty-0.74-installer.msi (for SSH support)

• Install tortoisehg-5.7.0-x64.msi

• Install python-2.7.18.amd64.msi (For current user, Python.exe not in path)

• Win+R -> cmd (command prompt): py -2 -m pip install hg-git --user

• Enable hggit in TortoiseHg Settings (Extensions)

I assume you could use newer versions of the THG, Python, etc. installers.