The newly introduced dialog tray is now not only showing the diff textually, but in a compare dialog. This means, that on selection of a changed file you get the “Show diff” button enabled. Clicking on it opens the tray and embeds the Eclipse compare dialog in order to be check changes in a structural compare viewer. When the file selection changes, the diff of the new file will automatically shown.

I plan to embed this dialog into the revert dialog as well. If you got any ideas, what could further be improved in the dialog to enhance the usuability, please comment – I’ll try to incorporate those suggestions if possible. Here’s a screenshot of the latest version:

Commit dialog with open tray (as of r1045)

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• Ctrl+Enter now triggers the Ok-button.
• Added a text field for recording the committers name – if not filled the configured user name is used, else the entered text. This makes the correct attribution of patches a lot easier.
• A tray showing the current working directory diff, which can be opened by clicking “Show diff”. This is definitely inspired by Merclipse. @Whitney: If you have some ideas what could be better, please tell me :). Next step: Only show the diff for the files being visible…
• Errors are now displayed via Error message as the dialog is now capable of showing error messages.

Here are some screenshots:

The new commit dialog with open tray.

The new commit dialog with closed tray.

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MercurialEclipse 1.3.1019 on MacOs X Leopard

As of today, the first of the 1.3 versions of MercurialEclipse is released: 1.3.1019. Since we heard you like bugs fixed, we did some bug fixing, but also added some new features. The changelog looks like this:

• Enable remote compare for outgoing changesets (r1000-r1004).
  

  Outgoing changes can now be shown in the Eclipse compare editor.

• Fix multi-threading issues (e.g. r997).
• Use hgattic extension for shelving/unshelving if it is available (r1012).
  

  If the HgAttic extension is installed, shelve and unshelve will use it.

• Support aliases for repositories
• Beginnings of a project property page (r1016).
  

  A property page shows associated repositories.

• Bumped default timeout (r1017).
• Saved commit messages are now configurable (r955).
• Added option to choose color and font for decoration of changed, unknown, removed, added, ignored and conflicting files (r957).
  

  Colors and fonts of decorations can now freely be chosen.

• Fixed massive performance bug in status decoration. Big projects will see major speed-ups when an incremental build is triggered, as builds don’t trigger status updates anymore (r981).
• Fix for username caching in repository location.
• Allow ignoring resources that are not in the status unknown.
• Chinese translation, fix log parsing, add Options page for Import/Export of patches.
• Added commit message dropdown in commit dialog #83 (r952).
  

  The commit dialog now allows to select a previously used commit message.

  

  After selection of a previous commit message, it is automatically pasted into the message area.

  
  

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