[ANN] Mercurial SCC plugin for MS Visual Studio 2005/2008

[Steve Borho]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sergey Antonov <sergant_ at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> I have made a new version of Mercurial plugin for MS Visual Studio 2008.
>
> Moved from MS SCCI API to MS SCC Package API.
>
> Much better integration with MS Visual Studio. HgSccPackage now have it's
> own toolbar and context menu items in Solution Explorer.
> Files are not marked as ReadOnly anymore!
>
> You must have the Mercurial v1.2 or higher installed
> Also note, that this version support only MS Visual Studio 2008.
> It is possible to have both version of HgScc plugins installed, because they
> use different API.
>
> Features:
>
>    * Support for basic operations: Add, Remove, Commit, Revert, Rename,
> Compare
>    * File history dialog with support of file differencing
>    * Support tracking of file renames in file history dialog
>    * Support external file comparison tools (use plugin options at
> Tools->Options->Source Control->Mercurial Options Page)
>    * In commit dialog you can check the files for checkin. Also you can
> compare files in commit dialog to see the changes with previous revision
>    * Toolbar for basic operations with Mercurial
>    * Tracking changes for files modified outside of IDE
>    * Improved performance

Very nice.  I'll have to try this sometime soon.

> Limitations:
>
>    * No support for operations specific for Mercurial: push, pull, clone,
> MQ, etc..
>    * No support for Merge
>    * No support for Get revision
>    * No support for revisions graph yet (work in progress)

Any interest in leveraging TortoiseHg if it is installed?  You can
launch all of the TortoiseHg dialogs through it's hgtk.exe command
line tool.

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Steve Borho