How to use Punchcard extension of Mercurial

One of the coolest feature of Github is the calendar chart that is shows for your contributions. You can get a similar chart for any Mercurial repository on your computer using the Punchcard extension.

• First clone the Punchcard repository in a suitable directory:

$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/hgpunchcard

• Modify your hgrc by adding these lines:

[extensions]
hgpunchcard = /path/to/hgpunchcard.py

• To generate the punchcard for a repository, try this command from inside any of its directories:

$ hg punchcard

This saves a file named punchcard.png that a chart of your commits to this repository, as shown above.

Tried with: Mercurial 2.8.2 and Ubuntu 14.04