So I do a lot of work on a school computer. We can't install anything but we have most of our tools on our flash drives but I was wondering if there's a way to get Command Prompt to use Mercurial off of my Flash Drive. Let's say in theory that Mercurial's files were on my flash drive, where would I go from there?
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To make Bryan's solution "truly" portable in Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, assuming the BAT file is inside Mercurial's directory, use:
set PATH=%PATH%;%~dp0%
So, no more hardcoded paths.
Say your flash drive was drive G: and your Mercurial executables are in G:\mercurial
Open a command prompt and enter:
set PATH=%PATH%;G:\mercurial
Proceed to use hg as normal
This should work, in theory. If you're on a *nix computer, you would do something like this (given /media/FLASHDRIVE is the path to your flash drive):
export PATH=$PATH:/media/FLASHDRIVE/mercurial
Hope that helps!
EDIT
In response to the comment below:
@ECHO OFF
REM Mercurial enabler :)
set PATH=%PATH%;G:\mercurial
cmd.exe
Should do it :)
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