http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/18211 http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/18211 http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/18211 <p>I am pleased to announce the latest release of <a class="reference" href="http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/1.1.0">hgview 1.1.0</a>.</p> <div class="section" id="what-is-it"> <h3><a>What is it?</a></h3> <p>For the ones from the back of the classroom near the radiator, let me remind you that <a class="reference" href="http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview">hgview</a> is a very helpful tool for daily work using the excellent DVCS <a class="reference" href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial</a> (which we heavily use at <a class="reference" href="http://www.logilab.fr">Logilab</a>). It allows to easily and visually navigate your hg repository revision graphlog. It is written in <a class="reference" href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> and <a class="reference" href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro">pyqt</a>.</p> <img alt="http://www.logilab.org/image/18210?vid=download" class="align-right" src="http://www.logilab.org/image/18210?vid=download" style="width: 450px;" /> </div> <div class="section" id="what-s-new"> <h3><a>What's new</a></h3> <ul class="simple"> <li>user can now configure colors used in the diff area (and they now defaults to white on black)</li> <li>indicate current working directory position by a square node</li> <li>add many other configuration options (listed when typing <cite>hg help hgview</cite>)</li> <li>removed 'hg hgview-options' command in favor of 'hg help hgview'</li> <li>add ability to choose which parent to diff with for merge nodes</li> <li>dramatically improved UI behaviour (shortcuts)</li> <li>improved help and make it accessible from the GUI</li> <li>make it possible not to display the diffstat column of the file list (which can dramatically improve performances on big repositories)</li> <li>standalone application: improved command line options</li> <li>indicate working directory position in the graph</li> <li>add auto-reload feature (when the repo is modified due to a pull, a commit, etc., hgview detects it, reloads the repo and updates the graph)</li> <li>fix <em>many</em> bugs, especially the file log navigator should now display the whole graph</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="download-and-installation"> <h3><a>Download and installation</a></h3> <p>The source code is available as a <a class="reference" href="http://ftp.logilab.org/pub/hgview/hgview-1.0.0.tar.gz">tarball</a>, or using our <a class="reference" href="http://www.logilab.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/">public hg repository</a> of course.</p> <p>To use it from the sources, you just have to add a line in your <tt class="docutils literal">.hgrc</tt> file, in the <cite>[extensions]</cite> section:</p> <blockquote> hgext.hgview=/path/to/hgview/hgext/hgview.py</blockquote> <p><a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> and <a class="reference" href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> users can also easily install hgview (and Logilab other free software tools) using our <a class="reference" href="http://www.logilab.org/card/LogilabDebianRepository">deb package repositories</a>.</p> </div> 2009-09-25T15:16-01:00 David Douard