When changing from Mercurial to Git in the NetBeans IDE one of these changes is to change our Ant based projects to Maven based projects. For those of you who don’t know what Maven is then you can look at these articles to learn more: https://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven. Previously my colleague Georgia has written an article on Converting Ant based…
In this article I will be talking about NetBeans Version Control Feature with Mercurial Support. Version control is one/if not my favourite feature in NetBeans, I honestly do not know how I have ever managed to cope without it prior to my job at IDRSolutions What is Version Control? Here at IDRSolutions we are all using NetBeans on…
As someone who spent some time today trying to find out how to change the user in Eclipse, let me save you some time if you meet this issue… There is a Mercurial menu in Eclipse with a username and there is also the hgrc file in the .hg Mercurial repository. Changes these will not…
I have being working with Mercurial with IDEA on Linux for the last few weeks and thought it would make the basis of a useful article. Setting up Mercurial IDEA includes a plugin (hg4idea) to access Mercurial so the first thing is to ensure this is setup and enabled. There is also a Mercurial settings…
If you read my previous article on First impressions of Kiln and Mercurial, you will know that we have moved over from Subversion and are tentatively learning how to use it. When you use a Version control system, you will find some hidden files appearing on your system and this article aims to tell you…
