MercurialEclipse - Show History not working

Question

My Team --> Show History has never worked for Mercurial Eclipse, and I'm finally getting around to trying to fix it.

I've tried searching for a solution, but all I can find are some old 2009 posts for what seemed like a temporary problem. I've tried starting Eclipse with the -clean option (as suggested in the old posts) with no luck. My Decorations are enabled for Mercurial.

I've been getting by this long because Compare With --> Another Revision works, but only with the revision on HEAD per branch.

Also, if I go to Preferences --> Team --> Mercurial --> Performance and enable "Show changeset information for files (very slow)", I am able to see the last change date next to individual files for the repository.

Mercurial Eclipse version 2.0.0.v201210091230

Intland Software com.intland.hgbinary.win32 version 2.3.2

Eclipse Helios

I'm working on an Android project if that makes any difference.

Any Ideas?

Answer 1

Fixed this by installing "Mercurial Eclipse by MercurialEclipse Project, EPL" as listed in the EclipseMarketplace.

I had "MercurialEclipse (was: HgEclipse) by Intland Software, EPL" installed, which was a version from before HgEclipse rebranded to MercurialEclipse. Even though I had installed using the instruction found at http://javaforge.com/project/HGE#download to Install New Software: http://cbes.javaforge.com/update, it seems that didn't install/update properly. When I used the EclipseMarketplace and installed the "Mercurial Eclipse by MercurialEclipse Project, EPL" plugin version, it claimed I already had it installed, but updated anyway, and that fixed the problem.

Answer 2

Doing Team --> Refresh on the file before doing Team --> Show History seems to make it work in some cases.