System Mercurial in non-standard location (Mac)

[kapplebaumia]

I installed Mercurial via HomeBrew, which puts it into /usr/local/Cellar/mercurial . This means I can't use the system Mercurial in SourceTree, because it complains about the location. Any work arounds for this?

[Torre Lasley]

I have Mercurial installed using Homebrew, this path worked for me:

/usr/local/Cellar/mercurial/3.8.4/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial

Note: you may have to tweak the mercurial version number. Also, when I attempted to link to the hg file in /usr/local/Cellar/mercurial/3.8.4/bin/ or the link in /usr/local/bin/hg it did not work.

[Daniel]

SourceTree has the same problem with git and gpg, somehow it doesn't like symlinks which is very annoying on an *nix system.

[kapplebaumia]

"Mercurial was not found on on your system in the standard locations; the SourceTree internal version will be used."

[Seth]

I'm not familiar with HomeBrew. Can you put a symlink to mercurial in the location SourceTree expects?

[kapplebaumia]

Apparently SourceTree is on to that kind of trick. 

[Seth]

At this point it might be helpful to share what error messages you're getting.