How to set up Mercurial on Snow Leopard with Eclipse

Question

I'm using Eclipse with C++ plugins on my macbook, trying some practice projects to improve my skills. I'd also like to test out Mercurial and get a taste of DVCS. Unfortunately, Eclipse + Mercurial + OSX seems to be a rare enough combination that there isn't a lot of helpful documentation out there.

What I've done so far:

• Installed Mercurial SCM
• Installed the HgEclipse plugin
• Installed GnuPG
• Set path to GnuPG and hg executables in Eclipse preferences > Team > Mercurial

I know I can turn a directory into an hg repository by navigating to that directory in terminal and using

hg init

and then I can add files with

hg add
hg commit

This should give me an hg repo with my files in it. So far, so good...but now I begin to falter.

How do I get HgEclipse pointed to my repo? My synchronize view has a Mercurial option, but when I select it, the Next button is grayed out, and the Finish button doesn't do anything...

Ideally, I would like to set up two local repositories, one personal and one "team" repo, so I can really evaluate Hg as this seems to be the popular configuration. Does HgEclipse only support commits to a single repo, or can it commit to the local repo and push to the "team" repo?

Any other suggestions from DVCS vets on how best to set up my environment?

Answer 1

To point eclipse at your local repo there are two main ways.

• File -> Import -> Mercurial -> Clone (Starting a new Project from a repo)
• (right click Project) -> Team -> Share Project -> Mercurial

(see How to turn on Mercurial in existing Eclipse project ?)

When you are up and running you can Push/Pull to another repository via the Team push/pull menu item.

• (right click Project) -> Team -> Pull ...
• (right click Project) -> Team -> Push ...

Answer 2

Ran through the setup steps again, following this excellent guide and everything is now working. I had a little trouble getting my brain around the fact that the eclipse workspace is itself a repository. With that set up, I was able to commit changes and push to another repository very easily.