ANN: HgShell 0.1, a context menu extension for Windows

[Ignacio Alvarez]

Additional comments on the extension:

- I just realized that the glog command doesn't accept a file parameter,
so "hg glog readme" won't display only the log entries for the readme
file. I've just uploaded version 0.1.1 of the extension to work around
this problem. The extension now uses "hg log" if the "Show log" command
is invoked on a file, and "hg glog" if invoked on a folder.

- The "Clone repository" command automatically determines the name of
the repository from the URL you give it. For example, if you clone
http://selenic.com/repo/hg, the repository is named hg, and if you clone
http://AMD:8000, the repository is named AMD_8000.

- When cloning a repository served using the "Run server" command, you
can append a name to the URL to give the repository a specific name. For
example, http://AMD:8000/RepoName.

- By default, KDiff3 makes backups of the files it overwrites when
merging. You can deselect this option using the "Settings->Configure
KDiff3" menu command if you don't want your repositories filled with
".orig" files. The option can be found at the bottom of the "Directory
Merge" tab:

http://xentient.com/images/SNAG-00007.png

- The "Push" command always does a pull first (a fetch actually) to
avoid the problem of creating multiple heads on the server it is pushing
its changes to.

Thank you.

Ignacio.


Ignacio Alvarez wrote:
> A few weeks back, I wrote a simple context menu extension for
> integrating Mercurial with Windows Explorer:
>
> http://xentient.com/images/SNAG-00006.png
>
> I've been waiting for some free time to write a basic tutorial on how
> to use the extension before releasing it, but I've figured I'm going
> to have to wait much longer, so I'm releasing it as is, in case anyone
> finds it useful:
>
> http://xentient.com/setups/hgshell-setup.zip
>
> The setup program will also install and configure Mercurial, Qct, and
> KDiff3.
>
> The extension basically works by passing the appropriate arguments to
> the hg command, either directly or through batch files stored in the
> "hgshell\scripts" folder.
>
> The "Clone repository" command works a bit different than you might
> expect. If you invoke it on a repository on your hard disk, it will
> automatically create a clone and append a number to the name. For
> example, if you clone "c:\repo" it will create a repository named
> "c:\repo.1" and if you clone it again it will create a repository
> named "c:\repo.2". If you invoke the clone command on a folder that
> isn't a repository, it will display a dialog where you can enter the
> URL of the repository you wish to clone.
>
> The extension stores its own settings in a file named ".hgoptions"
> inside the repository. This file shouldn't be tracked by Mercurial,
> since it's rewritten constantly and will most likely be different for
> each user.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ignacio.
>
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