Hg installs statistics
By mrcrowl (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · SCM Providers
Integrated Mercurial source control
Hg has 150,419 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #1850 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 21 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.71 / 5 from 21 ratings
About Hg
Overview
Integrated Mercurial source control
Prerequisites
Note: This extension leverages your machine's Mercurial (hg) installation, so you need to install Mercurial first.
Features
• Add files and commit from the source control side-bar (i.e. where git normally appears). • All the basics: commit, add, forget, update, push and pull. • See changes inline within text editor. • Interactive log for basic file history and diff. • Branch, merge heads, merge with branch, resolve + unresolve files. • Quickly switch branches, push and pull via status bar. • Supports named-branches or bookmark workflows. • Automatic incoming/outgoing counters. • Undo/rollback. • Shelve/Unshelve support. • Purge support. • Rebase support. • Show annotation for current line or for whole file.
Feedback & Contributing
• Please report any bugs, suggestions or documentation requests via the Github issues (_yes_, I see the irony). • Feel free to submit pull requests.
Initialize a new repo
• Just click the Mercurial icon from the source control title area:
Update to a branch/tag/bookmark
• The current branch name is shown in the bottom-left corner. • Click it to see a list of branches and tags that you can update to. • When hg.useBookmarks is enabled, this changes to bookmarks.
Settings
hg.enabled { boolean }
• Enables Hg as a source control manager in VS Code.
hg.useBookmarks { boolean }
• Choose between bookmarks vs. named-branches: "false" — named-branches mode (default) "true" — bookmarks mode
hg.pushPullScope { all | current | default }
• Specifies what to include in Push/Pull operations. • Depends on the choice of hg.useBookmarks. • For named-branches mode: (i.e. hg.useBookmarks = false) "all" — all branches / unrestricted (this is the default) "current" — only includes changesets for the current branch "default" — only includes changesets for the _default_ branch • For bookmarks mode: (i.e. hg.useBookmarks = true) "all" — all bookmarks / unrestricted (this is the default) "current" — only includes changesets for the active bookmark "default" — only includes changesets for bookmarks on the _default_ branch
hg.pushPullBranch _DEPRECATED_ { all | current | default }
• Use hg.pushPullScope instead. • Specifies which branch(es) should be included in Push/Pull operations. • Included only for backwards compatibility.
hg.autoUpdate { boolean }
• Enables automatic update of working directory to branch/bookmark head after pulling (equivalent to hg pull --update) "true" — enabled "false" — disabled, manual update/merge required
hg.autoInOut { boolean }
• Enables automatic counting of incoming/outgoing changes. • When enabled, these show in the status bar. • Updated every 3 minutes, or whenever a commit/push/pull is done. • Note: when hg.pushPullBranch is set to "current" or "default" then only the respective branch will be included in the counts.
hg.autoRefresh { boolean }
• Enables automatic refreshing of Source Control tab and badge counter when files within the project change: "true" — enabled "false" — disabled, manual refresh still available.
hg.countBadge { tracked | all | off }
• Controls the badge counter for Source Control in the activity bar: "tracked" — only count changes to tracked files (default). "all" — include untracked files in count. "off" — no badge counter.
hg.allowPushNewBranches { boolean }
• Overrides the warning that normally occurs when a new branch is pushed: "true" — new branches are pushed without warning (default). "false" — shows a prompt when new branches are being pushed (e.g hg push --new-branch)
hg.path { string | null }
• Specifies an explicit hg file path to use. • This should only be used if hg cannot be found automatically. • The default behaviour is to search for hg in commonly-known install locations and on the PATH.
hg.commandMode
• Controls the method used to communicate with hg. • There is a slight start-up performance cost with repeatedly running hg commands. • Running a command server process in the background allows frequently-used commands to run ~10× faster (e.g. cat, status, summary, branch etc.) • The server feature is still expiremental, and is therefore not the default. "cli" — spawn a new hg process per command (default). "server" — run a command server process _i.e. hg serve --cmdserve_
hg.lineAnnotationEnabled
• Enables hg annotate decorations at end of the currently selected lines.
Acknowledgements
Core Maintainers
• incidentist • hdpolivieira
Other Contributions
ajansveld, hoffmael, nioh-wiki, joaomoreno, nsgundy, KristjanTammekivi, Marcelotsvaz, gd4Ark
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- hg
- mercurial
- multi-root ready
- scm
- source
- tortoise
Where Hg sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mrcrowl.hg. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.