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This is just so I don't forget or lose it: this post has probably the best guide to getting TortoiseHg set up as a github client on Windows:

james mckay dot net - TortoiseHg as a github client on Windows

Apparently I don't know how to use Google, because I always struggle to find this.

UPDATE:
Be careful not to wrap the hggit extension path in quotes in the mercurial config file *even if the path has a directory with a space in it*. I was setting mine like this:

[extensions]
hggit = "C:\ABC DEF\hg-git\hggit"

but that was causing this error:
*** failed to import extension hggit from "C:\ABC DEF\hg-git\hggit": [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Removing the quotes fixed the problem:
[extensions]
hggit = C:\ABC DEF\hg-git\hggit

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