HgEclipse 1.5.0 Final Released

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As you might already know, the Release Candidate of HgEclipse 1.5.0 has been out since last November. Now we are happy to announce that the 1.5.0 stable release is available! If you were waiting for the stable release, don't hesistate any longer. For those who are not familiar with the project: HgEclipse is a Mercurial Distributed Version Control plugin for the Eclipse IDE, which is geared towards enterprise use.

1.5.0 is the first stable release delivered by Intland. Our ultimate goal is to evolve this plugin accompanied by our free and commercial products to a truly Enterprise-scale Distributed Version Control Solution.

You can download the plugin from JavaForge.

Changes since 1.5.0RC1

A couple of days ago, we posted the sneak preview of the change list to the Facebook page of HgEclipse. We will follow this practice in the future as well, so become a fan on Facebook if you want to keep up with the project, always know all the latest and interact with fellow users.

History View improvements:

New features like "Compare with previous"
Icon decorations instead of cryptical action letters
Full set of "Open" and "Compare" context menus for the change set files
Highlighting the base file in the changed files set
Consistency fix: default action for double click is now "compare with the previous"
Tags can be shown for single files
Sigcheck analysis is optional now
Graph view bug fixes and performance enhancements

Merge View improvements:

Conflict dialog changed from modal dialog to use 3-way merge editor
New context menus: "Open merge editor", "Open default editor", "Mark resolve/unresolve" and "Show history"
Ugly text actions from the toolbar removed

"Compare" action now compares with the predecessor of the current version, if the file is not changed
Enabled reverting a file (even if file is not changed) to a specific revision from the Revert dialog
Added content assistance for the "Switch to" revision text field
New feature to "Close" named branches
Annotations are following file rename/move history
Various other bug fixes

Future

The next release is scheduled by 2010 April. Currently we are planning and prioritizing worklog items for the next sprint, so we are keen to receive user feedback and would welcome your contribution. Tweet us what feature you would like to see in 1.6.0, and tell us what you think in general on LinkedIn.

Hey! Still here? Now the interesting part: within a couple of weeks, we will roll out a new version of the codeBeamer Mylyn connector. This will be a great addition to your free tool set consisting of Mercurial, Eclipse, HgEclipse, Mylyn and codeBeamer Managed Repositories. Imagine this:

you clone a repository from Mercurial easily maintained by codeBeamer MR,
pull in issues from codeBeamer to Mylyn tasks,
work on resolving the issues,
commit your change sets to Mercurial,
then push what you have done back to Mercurial, and close issue.

All this wrapped in an unobtrusive, semi-automatic, lightweight workflow driven by pragmatic approach.

Finally

Download HgEclipse via Eclipse Update in a minute.
Watch the 4 minute tutorial video on YouTube.
Join the project on JavaForge, get the source code and help us.
Tweet us what you think about or what you are doing with the plugin. We would love to hear from you.
Visit the HgEclipse Facebook page.
Meet fellow users in the Linkedin group.

All right, happy coding now.

Posted at 11:29AM Jan 27, 2010 by Intland Team in Announcements | 13 Comments

Comments:

Great work!
Nice to see all the nice changes you have done with the project!

Posted by Zingo Andersen on January 27, 2010 at 11:21 PM CET #

Thanks, Zingo.

Posted by Adam on January 28, 2010 at 11:26 AM CET #

I'd love to play with this, but the update site isn't working for me, and the hg clone requests a username and password. I've signed up for javaforge, but that login doesn't work (authorization failed) either through command line or the web interface. Help!

Posted by Tim on January 29, 2010 at 06:16 PM CET #

update site isn't working for me

What does it mean "not working"? What error message do you receive?

Posted by Adam on February 01, 2010 at 09:30 AM CET #

Apologies, that was a rubbish error report! I got a blank page going to the update site in a browser. I have since managed to get the update site to work and am happily testing the new version. Thanks for taking this tool forward.

Posted by Tim on February 01, 2010 at 11:54 AM CET #

Again, http://hge.javaforge.com/hgeclipse/ is currently returning a blank page to me.

Posted by Tim on February 01, 2010 at 11:58 AM CET #

same here. eclipse tells me "no features found on selected site"

Posted by 91.195.199.24 on February 01, 2010 at 12:59 PM CET #

... and where is the source code you're obliged to provide as you're using the EPL licensed code of MercurialEclipse?

Posted by Bastian on February 01, 2010 at 05:59 PM CET #

The sources are still inaccessible - and not a single word of explanation from developers. This is outrageous!!!

Posted by 83.26.97.201 on February 27, 2010 at 01:04 PM CET #

it still doesn't work. WTF?

Posted by user on March 02, 2010 at 07:19 PM CET #

I still can't access the eclipse download site.

Posted by TIM on March 03, 2010 at 12:07 PM CET #

Despite your complaints, cloning the source code like this does work:


/tmp/xxx$ hg clone http://javaforge.com/hg/hgeclipse

http authorization required

realm: Mercurial Repository

user: john.doe

password: 

destination directory: hgeclipse

requesting all changes

adding changesets

adding manifests

adding file changes

added 1929 changesets with 6909 changes to 767 files

updating working directory

516 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

If you have problems, please drop us a mail at support(at)intland.com and we will get back to help you immediately.

IMPORTANT! There is no license condition violated. If you think there is, point out what exactly. Otherwise, false accusations will be ignored or will have their legal consequences.

Posted by 78.92.10.35 on March 04, 2010 at 02:20 PM CET #

@TIM and @USER could you be a little more specific on the error? what happens when you enter the update site URL to Eclipse?

we have 100+ downloads every day, so we are confident the Update Site works.

Posted by HgEclipse on March 04, 2010 at 02:23 PM CET #

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