HgEclipse is a plugin providing support for the highly popular Mercurial distributed version control system within the Eclipse IDE. The Release Candidate of HgEclipse 1.5.0 has been available since November 2009.

The HgEclipse team have announced that the HgEclipse 1.5.0 stable release is available.

HgEclipse 1.5.0 is the first stable release delivered by Intland. Our ultimate goal is to evolve this plugin accompanied by our free and commercial products to a truly Enterprise-scale Distributed Version Control Solution.

You can download the plugin from JavaForge:
http://www.javaforge.com/project/HGE

Changes since 1.5.0RC1:

• New features like "Compare with previous"
• Icon decorations instead of cryptical action letters
• Full set of "Open" and "Compare" context menus for the change set files
• Highlighting the base file in the changed files set
• Consistency fix: default action for double click is now "compare with the previous"
• Tags can be shown for single files
• Sigcheck analysis is optional now
• Graph view bug fixes and performance enhancements
• Merge View improvements:
• Conflict dialog changed from modal dialog to use 3-way merge editor
• New context menus: "Open merge editor", "Open default editor", "Mark resolve/unresolve" and "Show history"
• Ugly text actions from the toolbar removed
• "Compare" action now compares with the predecessor of the current version, if the file is not changed
• Enabled reverting a file (even if file is not changed) to a specific revision from the Revert dialog
• Added content assistance for the "Switch to" revision text field
• New feature to "Close" named branches
• Annotations are following file rename/move history
• Various other bug fixes

The next release is scheduled by 2010 April.

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