Mercurial Eclipse

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht
<peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:01 PM, David J Iannucci <dji at uen.org> wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  >  I'm considering hg as a CVS replacement for our software group, but I
>  >  have a question about Eclipse integration:  I found this:
>  >
>  >   http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse/
>  >
>  >  But the web site makes it seem this is dead.  Or is it just that it
>  >  works so well that no further development is needed?  I don't use
>  >  Eclipse myself, so I haven't actually tried to test it.
>  >
>  >  Are there people out there using hg with Eclipse?  How does it work for
>  >  you?
>
>  I do use Hg with Eclipse extensively, but without the plugin. In fact,
>  one of the major reasons for my adoption of Hg at the time was its `hg
>  addrem -s` command which makes me independent of IDE plugins. I can
>  now freely refactor and then have Hg figure it out after the fact. I
>  had so much trouble with svn integration and refactoring that this
>  feels like heaven.

This is not to say the plugin is bad. I have no opinion on that
because I never used it. It's just to say you can live very well
without a plugin at all with Hg.