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