Installing Mercurial on iMac
Downloaded Mercurial 2.0.1 for MacOS X 10.7 from http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/. Ran the installer as usual. Mercurial installs to ' /usr/local/bin/' as the executable file 'hg'. Navigate to this in terminal and run the command 'hg version', should give you something like this if it's worked: Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.0.1+20111201) (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information) Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Then need to setup a username. Do this in an .ini style file called .hgrc. This needs to be in your home directory (~/), which in my case is '/Users/steve/', and contains the following: [ui] username = Steve Richmond That's it!