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mercurial equivalent of visual svn server

I know this has been asked in the past, but those questions are a few years old so I figured there might be some new information.

I'm working at a company that's not a software company but we also have a few programmers. Today we are using a visual svn server to host our repositories and tortoiseSVN to interact with the repositories. I'm not a big fan of subversion since I want to be able to commit without updating/merging, so I've proposed a change to mercurial instead.

We still want to run a server with all the repositories on our own network so we want something that looks like this.

It would also be nice if there was a way to browse the repositories through a web browser so that our non programmers can also access the repositories. I've searched for quite a bit to see if I can find a mercural version of visual svn server but I haven't had much luck. I found this thing called HgLab which looks nice, but might be a bit overkill for our needs.

So to my question. Does anyone know a mercurial equivalent of visual svn server that's pretty straightforward to setup on a windows server?

Solution

  • At my office, we use Kallithea (https://kallithea-scm.org/) , on Windows Server 2008 R2.

    The only issue we had on setup was due to our corporate firewall - we had to manually install some dependencies.

    Some further references:

    There's also RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com/), from which Kallithea was forked due to a licencing dispute. I don't have any experience with installing RhodeCode, but I believe it will also be an alternative for you.

    Don't be worried about overkill if it does what you need in a simple way (without the "overkill" bits getting in the way).

    We started our Mercurial journey by hosting hgweb on IIS, and adding a repository meant opening an RDP session to the server, running hg init, manually editing hgrc to add relevant information, remembering to check that the correct users have access to the folders and so on.

    In Kallithea? Simply click the "add repository" button on its landing page, and fill in the form it opens. It has other features, like changeset reviews/comments, which we haven't used much (just testing how it works, really). But as the features we don't use aren't in the way, we don't mind.