[ANN] TortoiseHg 0.4 release candidate

[Steve Borho]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 17:32 +0200, Sebastien Lucas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> > A release candidate installer is available at SourceForge:
> >  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=199155
> >
> >  Release notes:
> >  http://tortoisehg.wiki.sourceforge.net/ReleaseHistory
> >
> >  We expect the final release to happen early next week.  Please report
> >  any problems you find in this package to
> >  tortoisehg-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Before installing this new release, I have one question : in the
> ReleaseHistory there is :
> 
> Added user config 'tortoisehg.overlayicons' [True|False|localdisks],
> to enable/disable overlay icons in selected repos. The 'localdisks'
> global option disables overlay icons for repos reside on network
> drives.
> 
> I don't understand the "in selected repos" part. Is there a way to
> configure TortoiseHg so that only the directory c:\src\hg will be
> scanned (like with TortoiseSvn) ?
> 
> I was very interested in TortoiseHg but was forced to uninstall it
> because my explorer was slowwwwwww (I have a big disk with many
> mercurial and subversion big project, so a lot of small files). I had
> the same problem with tortoiseSvn and I solved it by making it scan
> only the directory c:\src\svn).
> 
> thanks in adavance, in any case I'll test it properly this weekend.

The overlay configuration is extracted from the Mercurial configuration
system which allows three layers of configuration: C:\$PF\TortoiseHg
\Mercurial.ini (site-wide), $(HOME)\Mercurial.ini (user global),
and .hg/hgrc (per-repository).

TortoiseHg provides a configuration application that can edit either
your global settings or a specific repository's settings.

So it's possible to set overlayicons = False in your user level
configuration (TortoiseHg->Settings->Global) and then override that
value in specific repositories (TortoiseHg->Settings->Repository).

This configurability is a key feature of 0.4, so we would like feedback
on how well it works.

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