Kiln Client & Tools

When you first start using Kiln, you’ll want to download the Kiln Client and Tools, our pre-configured Mercurial and Git clients optimized to work with Kiln. The Kiln Client also comes with TortoiseHg, our recommended GUI for working with Mercurial locally. To download, the Kiln Client and Tools, open up a browser and login to […]

The TortoiseHg that ships with KilnTools is no different from that you’d download directly from the TortoiseHg project. We do bundle a few extra extensions with it, and if you lack a Mercurial.ini file, we will set up one for you, but otherwise, there is (currently) no difference. There is one extension you do likely […]

After installing the Kiln Client & Tools, you might notice some extensions enabled in your Mercurial.ini file. Here’s what they are, and what they do! We bundle a number of Mercurial extensions with the Kiln Client in order to improve your Mercurial experience. Here’s a brief list: big-push Helps pushing of large repositories by adding […]

You can run hg logout on the command line to clear your cookies once, and you’ll have to login when you run your next push/pull/inc/out command. If you’d like to permanently disable kilnauth, you can simply edit your Mercurial.ini file and remove the line that starts with “kilnauth=”. Mercurial.ini should be found in your home […]

Path guessing tries to remove the constant pain of either adding a bunch of paths to your hgrc file or copying URLs back and forth all day long. The incoming, outgoing, pull, and push Mercurial commands are supported for this extension. After you install the Kiln Client, which includes the kiln extension, you should see […]