Sigh. I really hate seeing hg languish like this. Command line is nicer, and I have yet to find any git gui frontend that matches what TortoiseHG can do (both in terms of invocating dialogs from the cmdline; and in terms of presenting and manipulating the graph).
I really hope something happens to help hg start accumulating more market share. Not just for my opinion on the tooling; but because IMO the "git = github = the only place for opensource" monoculture is kinda problematic.
The best TortoiseHg equivalent I've found (after a lot of searching) is SmartGit [1]. It's not as good as TortoiseHg and its not free but it's nice enough for most of my use cases.
I really hope something happens to help hg start accumulating more market share. Not just for my opinion on the tooling; but because IMO the "git = github = the only place for opensource" monoculture is kinda problematic.