diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgExecutableValidator.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgExecutableValidator.java
index 03bf71e1504b..c9d5ee7c8f2b 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgExecutableValidator.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgExecutableValidator.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public class HgExecutableValidator extends ExecutableValidator {
 
   @Override
   public boolean isExecutableValid(String executable) {
-    return new HgVersionCommand().isValid(executable);
+    return new HgVersionCommand().isValid(executable, myVcs.getGlobalSettings().isRunViaBash());
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgGlobalSettings.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgGlobalSettings.java
index 341369d9c53d..6c73c9dca1cc 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgGlobalSettings.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgGlobalSettings.java
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 package org.zmlx.hg4idea;
 
 import com.intellij.openapi.components.PersistentStateComponent;
-import com.intellij.openapi.components.ServiceManager;
 import com.intellij.openapi.components.State;
 import com.intellij.openapi.components.Storage;
 import com.intellij.util.containers.HashMap;
@@ -29,18 +28,32 @@ import java.util.Map;
   name = "HgGlobalSettings",
   storages = @Storage(id = "HgGlobalSettings", file = "$APP_CONFIG$/vcs.xml")
 )
-public class HgGlobalSettings implements PersistentStateComponent<HgGlobalSettings> {
+public class HgGlobalSettings implements PersistentStateComponent<HgGlobalSettings.State> {
 
   private static final String HG = HgVcs.HG_EXECUTABLE_FILE_NAME;
   private static final int FIVE_MINUTES = 300;
 
-  private String hgExecutable = HG;
+  private String myHgExecutable = HG;
 
   // visited URL -> list of logins for this URL. Passwords are remembered in the PasswordSafe.
   private Map<String, List<String>> myRememberedUrls = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
+  private boolean myRunViaBash;
 
-  public static HgGlobalSettings getInstance() {
-    return ServiceManager.getService(HgGlobalSettings.class);
+  public static class State {
+    public String hgExecutable;
+    public boolean runViaBash;
+  }
+
+  public State getState() {
+    State s = new State();
+    s.hgExecutable = myHgExecutable;
+    s.runViaBash = myRunViaBash;
+    return s;
+  }
+
+  public void loadState(State state) {
+    myHgExecutable = state.hgExecutable;
+    myRunViaBash = state.runViaBash;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -77,31 +90,31 @@ public class HgGlobalSettings implements PersistentStateComponent<HgGlobalSettin
   }
 
   public String getHgExecutable() {
-    return hgExecutable;
+    return myHgExecutable;
   }
 
   public void setHgExecutable(String hgExecutable) {
-    this.hgExecutable = hgExecutable;
+    this.myHgExecutable = hgExecutable;
   }
 
   public boolean isAutodetectHg() {
-    return HG.equals(hgExecutable);
+    return HG.equals(myHgExecutable);
   }
 
   public void enableAutodetectHg() {
-    hgExecutable = HG;
+    myHgExecutable = HG;
   }
 
   public static int getIncomingCheckIntervalSeconds() {
     return FIVE_MINUTES;
   }
 
-  public HgGlobalSettings getState() {
-    return this;
+  public boolean isRunViaBash() {
+    return myRunViaBash;
   }
 
-  public void loadState(HgGlobalSettings state) {
-    hgExecutable = state.hgExecutable;
+  public void setRunViaBash(boolean runViaBash) {
+    myRunViaBash = runViaBash;
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgProjectSettings.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgProjectSettings.java
index 0a1fea92b81f..760c49cb91e8 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgProjectSettings.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/HgProjectSettings.java
@@ -22,9 +22,14 @@ import com.intellij.openapi.components.Storage;
 )
 public class HgProjectSettings implements PersistentStateComponent<HgProjectSettings.State> {
 
+  private final HgGlobalSettings myAppSettings;
   private boolean myCheckIncoming = true;
   private boolean myCheckOutgoing = true;
 
+  public HgProjectSettings(HgGlobalSettings appSettings) {
+    myAppSettings = appSettings;
+  }
+
   public static class State {
     public boolean myCheckIncoming = true;
     public boolean myCheckOutgoing = true;
@@ -59,19 +64,27 @@ public class HgProjectSettings implements PersistentStateComponent<HgProjectSett
   }
 
   public String getHgExecutable() {
-    return HgGlobalSettings.getInstance().getHgExecutable();
+    return myAppSettings.getHgExecutable();
   }
 
   public boolean isAutodetectHg() {
-    return HgGlobalSettings.getInstance().isAutodetectHg();
+    return myAppSettings.isAutodetectHg();
   }
 
   public void enableAutodetectHg() {
-    HgGlobalSettings.getInstance().enableAutodetectHg();
+    myAppSettings.enableAutodetectHg();
   }
 
   public void setHgExecutable(String text) {
-    HgGlobalSettings.getInstance().setHgExecutable(text);
+    myAppSettings.setHgExecutable(text);
+  }
+
+  public boolean isRunViaBash() {
+    return myAppSettings.isRunViaBash();
+  }
+
+  public void setRunViaBash(boolean runViaBash) {
+    myAppSettings.setRunViaBash(runViaBash);
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgCommandService.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgCommandService.java
index 255f4f1c6d16..fcf87cbcf151 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgCommandService.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgCommandService.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public final class HgCommandService {
     if (arguments != null && arguments.size() != 0) {
       cmdLine.addAll(arguments);
     }
-    ShellCommand shellCommand = new ShellCommand();
+    ShellCommand shellCommand = new ShellCommand(mySettings.isRunViaBash());
     HgCommandResult result;
     try {
       String workingDir = repo != null ? repo.getPath() : null;
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ public final class HgCommandService {
     result.setWarnings(warnings);
 
     // logging to the Version Control console (without extensions and configs)
-    final String cmdString = String.format("%s %s %s", HgVcs.HG_EXECUTABLE_FILE_NAME, operation,
+    final String cmdString = String.format("%s %s %s", mySettings.isRunViaBash() ? "bash -c " + HgVcs.HG_EXECUTABLE_FILE_NAME : HgVcs.HG_EXECUTABLE_FILE_NAME, operation,
             StringUtils.join(arguments, " "));
     myVcs.showMessageInConsole(cmdString, ConsoleViewContentType.USER_INPUT.getAttributes());
     if (!silent) {
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgVersionCommand.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgVersionCommand.java
index 762622ce5654..5276d020a1a7 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgVersionCommand.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/HgVersionCommand.java
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 
 public class HgVersionCommand {
 
-  public boolean isValid(String executable) {
+  public boolean isValid(String executable, boolean isRunViaBash) {
     String hgExecutable = StringUtils.trim(executable);
     if (!hgExecutable.endsWith(HgVcs.HG_EXECUTABLE_FILE_NAME)) {
       return false;
     }
-    ShellCommand shellCommand = new ShellCommand();
+    ShellCommand shellCommand = new ShellCommand(isRunViaBash);
     try {
       return !shellCommand
         .execute(Arrays.asList(hgExecutable, "version"), null, Charset.defaultCharset())
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/ShellCommand.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/ShellCommand.java
index 28a15d871b3c..28baabb5c652 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/ShellCommand.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/command/ShellCommand.java
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@
 package org.zmlx.hg4idea.command;
 
 import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
+import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 
@@ -24,11 +26,28 @@ final class ShellCommand {
   private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance(ShellCommand.class.getName());
 
   private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;
+  private final boolean myRunViaBash;
+
+  public ShellCommand(boolean runViaBash) {
+    myRunViaBash = runViaBash;
+  }
 
   public HgCommandResult execute(List<String> commandLine, String dir, Charset charset) throws ShellCommandException, InterruptedException {
     if (commandLine == null || commandLine.isEmpty()) {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("commandLine is empty");
     }
+
+    if (myRunViaBash) {
+      // run via bash -cl <hg command> => need to escape bash special symbols
+      // '-l' makes bash execute as a login shell thus reading .bash_profile
+      String hgCommand = StringUtil.join(commandLine, " ");
+      hgCommand = StringUtil.escapeStringCharacters(hgCommand.length(), hgCommand, "\b\t\n\f\r|>$\"'&", false, false, new StringBuilder()).toString(); // we don't escape backslash, because we want special unicode characters (\u0017 for hg log)
+      commandLine = new ArrayList<String>(3);
+      commandLine.add("bash");
+      commandLine.add("-cl");
+      commandLine.add(hgCommand);
+    }
+
     StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
     StringWriter err = new StringWriter();
     try {
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.form b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.form
index 081bfbf896ce..a251f8fb50f3 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.form
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.form
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <form xmlns="http://www.intellij.com/uidesigner/form/" version="1" bind-to-class="org.zmlx.hg4idea.ui.HgConfigurationProjectPanel">
-  <grid id="27dc6" binding="myMainPanel" layout-manager="GridLayoutManager" row-count="3" column-count="1" same-size-horizontally="false" same-size-vertically="false" hgap="-1" vgap="-1">
+  <grid id="27dc6" binding="myMainPanel" layout-manager="GridLayoutManager" row-count="4" column-count="1" same-size-horizontally="false" same-size-vertically="false" hgap="-1" vgap="-1">
     <margin top="0" left="0" bottom="0" right="0"/>
     <constraints>
       <xy x="20" y="20" width="500" height="400"/>
@@ -80,9 +80,17 @@
       </grid>
       <vspacer id="4088f">
         <constraints>
-          <grid row="2" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="1" anchor="0" fill="2" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
+          <grid row="3" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="6" hsize-policy="1" anchor="0" fill="2" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
         </constraints>
       </vspacer>
+      <component id="71ef3" class="javax.swing.JCheckBox" binding="myRunHgAsBashCheckBox" default-binding="true">
+        <constraints>
+          <grid row="2" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="8" fill="0" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
+        </constraints>
+        <properties>
+          <text value="Run hg as 'bash -c &lt;path to hg&gt;'"/>
+        </properties>
+      </component>
     </children>
   </grid>
   <buttonGroups>
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.java
index 6d314b56f224..b5b7e745a5e9 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgConfigurationProjectPanel.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public class HgConfigurationProjectPanel {
   private JRadioButton myAutoRadioButton;
   private JRadioButton mySelectRadioButton;
   private TextFieldWithBrowseButton myPathSelector;
+  private JCheckBox myRunHgAsBashCheckBox;
 
   public HgConfigurationProjectPanel(HgProjectSettings projectSettings) {
     myProjectSettings = projectSettings;
@@ -53,12 +54,14 @@ public class HgConfigurationProjectPanel {
                                  ? !myPathSelector.getText().equals(myProjectSettings.getHgExecutable())
                                  : myAutoRadioButton.isSelected() != myProjectSettings.isAutodetectHg();
     return executableModified || myCheckIncomingCbx.isSelected() != myProjectSettings.isCheckIncoming()
-           || myCheckOutgoingCbx.isSelected() != myProjectSettings.isCheckOutgoing();
+           || myCheckOutgoingCbx.isSelected() != myProjectSettings.isCheckOutgoing()
+           || myRunHgAsBashCheckBox.isSelected() != myProjectSettings.isRunViaBash();
   }
 
   public void saveSettings() {
     myProjectSettings.setCheckIncoming(myCheckIncomingCbx.isSelected());
     myProjectSettings.setCheckOutgoing(myCheckOutgoingCbx.isSelected());
+    myProjectSettings.setRunViaBash(myRunHgAsBashCheckBox.isSelected());
 
     if (myAutoRadioButton.isSelected()) {
       myProjectSettings.enableAutodetectHg();
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ public class HgConfigurationProjectPanel {
   public void loadSettings() {
     myCheckIncomingCbx.setSelected(myProjectSettings.isCheckIncoming());
     myCheckOutgoingCbx.setSelected(myProjectSettings.isCheckOutgoing());
+    myRunHgAsBashCheckBox.setSelected(myProjectSettings.isRunViaBash());
 
     boolean isAutodetectHg = myProjectSettings.isAutodetectHg();
     myAutoRadioButton.setSelected(isAutodetectHg);
@@ -94,7 +98,7 @@ public class HgConfigurationProjectPanel {
       hgExecutable = myPathSelector.getText();
     }
     HgVersionCommand command = new HgVersionCommand();
-    if (!command.isValid(hgExecutable)) {
+    if (!command.isValid(hgExecutable, myRunHgAsBashCheckBox.isSelected())) {
       throw new ConfigurationException(
         HgVcsMessages.message("hg4idea.configuration.executable.error", hgExecutable)
       );
@@ -102,7 +106,7 @@ public class HgConfigurationProjectPanel {
   }
 
   private void createUIComponents() {
-    myPathSelector = new HgSetExecutablePathPanel();
+    myPathSelector = new HgSetExecutablePathPanel(myProjectSettings);
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgSetExecutablePathPanel.java b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgSetExecutablePathPanel.java
index 7594a7c86244..356becd98291 100644
--- a/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgSetExecutablePathPanel.java
+++ b/plugins/hg4idea/src/org/zmlx/hg4idea/ui/HgSetExecutablePathPanel.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor;
 import com.intellij.openapi.options.ConfigurationException;
 import com.intellij.openapi.ui.TextFieldWithBrowseButton;
 import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
+import org.zmlx.hg4idea.HgProjectSettings;
 import org.zmlx.hg4idea.HgVcsMessages;
 import org.zmlx.hg4idea.command.HgVersionCommand;
 
@@ -19,12 +20,12 @@ class HgSetExecutablePathPanel extends TextFieldWithBrowseButton {
 
   private final Set<ActionListener> myOkListeners = new HashSet<ActionListener>();
 
-  HgSetExecutablePathPanel() {
+  HgSetExecutablePathPanel(final HgProjectSettings projectSettings) {
     FileChooserDescriptor descriptor = new FileChooserDescriptor(true, false, false, false, false, false) {
       public void validateSelectedFiles(VirtualFile[] files) throws Exception {
         HgVersionCommand command = new HgVersionCommand();
         String path = files[0].getPath();
-        if (!command.isValid(path)) {
+        if (!command.isValid(path, projectSettings.isRunViaBash())) {
           throw new ConfigurationException(HgVcsMessages.message("hg4idea.configuration.executable.error", path));
         }
         for (ActionListener okListener : myOkListeners) {