Question

We’d like to switch up from SVN to Git or Mercurial at work, and Mercurial we would like to investigate first.

I have installed Hg on my Windows machine and got the Eclipse plugin, but I don’t get a perspective like I do for SVN inside of Eclipse PDT.

Does this not exist, or do I have the wrong flavor of Eclipse? I would like to see my repos in one window while I code in the other like I do with SVN.

Also, do the commands appear in the context menu (right click) under Team? So far, I can’t see that Mercurial is in my Eclipse PDT environment other than when I want to Import a project, I have a few Hg options.

Any Hg/Eclipse pros know if this is by-design or am I missing something?

Answer 1

You can follow this “DVCS part 3: team… options and first steps using EGit, HgEclipse” tutorial, from the Ekke’s DVCS pages.
In this latter page, you will find many comment on HgEclipse views and menus.

EGit – and HgEclipse Views or Perspectives ?

If I’m exploring new things I always take a look if there are special Perspectives or Views provided.
In case of aVCS – Team Provider Plug-in from my experiences using CVS I expected that there would also be a Perspective for Git or Mercurial repositories.
But both Plug-ins don’t provide an own perspective.

Next step I take a look at the Views and found that HgEclipse provides some extra Views: