[ANN] TortoiseHg-0.3

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:11 +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> >> Maybe I am blind, but how can I issue 'hg update' via TortoiseHG ?
> >
> > In the context menu (Windows Explorer) select the menu entry "View
> > Changelog" from the "TortoiseHG" submenu. In the changelog viewer,
> > right-click on the changeset (in the upper pane) and select the menu
> > entry "checkout" (from that context menu).
> >
> > This will open the update dialog.
> 
> Hmm, don't you think that this is noticeably too complicated
> considering update (especially update to the tip) is an essential,
> frequently used operation? And considering synch dialog by default
> pulls without updating?

It's available from the main context menu as 'Checkout Revision'.

We alternated back and forth between 'Update' and 'Checkout' for quite
some time.  It's a trade-off between confusing experienced hg users and
inexperienced hg users.

As it is, I'm leaning towards making it 'update' again, as all of the
helpful messages emitted by Mercurial always say 'update'.

Also, it's on my TODO list to make the 'pull -u' setting coherent.

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