[ANN] TortoiseHg-0.3: suggestion and changelog browser bug

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 11:09 +0100, Jens.Wulf at sew-eurodrive.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated (from mercurial-0.9.5+win32-extras to tortoisehg-0.3)
> to take a look at what happened to "hg view" and what's there instead
> of it. 
> 
> Although I have a linux and CLI background I do use hg and windows at
> work and left the tortoisehg shell extensions enabled -- I guess they
> are helpful to show hg to others. Maybe I'll use them, too...don't
> know.
> 
> After a short evaluation I want to suggest backwards compatibility to
> make "hg view" open the new changelog browser. Can that be done using
> an extension? I am used to "hg view" and still use it on linux
> systems, but have to type "hgtk log" here now.

That's kind of the opposite of backwards compatibility, since it would
prevent people from using hgk if they still preferred it in certain
circumstances over the new log viewer.  

But I understand your intent.  In the next release we will drop support
for hgk from the context menus and at that time it may make sense to
create an extension for the new log viewer that provides the 'view'
command.

BTW: the hgtk commands work well on Linux as well.  There's a page on
the TortoiseHg wiki describing how to install them on non-Windows
platforms.  I do 90% of my TortoiseHg development on Linux.

> There's a bug in the changelog browser: it displays the wrong summary
> in the list view on some revisions (summary of some other revision is
> displayed instead of the correct one). On some lines the display
> changes depending on where the mouse points at.

Is this repeatable?  Can you mail me instructions on how to reproduce
it?  On exceptionally large changesets, there can be a lag of some
seconds before the changeset is displayed.

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