MercurialEclipse error ‘dotencode’ not supported!

When using Team Mercurial to refresh an Eclipse project I got this error:   “abort: requirement ‘dotencode’ not supported!”

Strange I just updated the Intland Software’s MercurialEclipse feature and it’s running Mercurial 1.7.0.

Fix

Anyway, to fix I just went into the

plug-ins configuration: Windows -> Preferences -> Team -> Mercurial and unchecked the “Use default (built-in) Mercurial executable”.

I specified “C:\Program Files (x86)\TortoiseHg\hg.exe” or whatever is the location of the latest hg.

It worked. Hope it doesn’t break something else.

Updates

• 2011MAR04: I updated to new Hg ver 1.8 and TortoiseHg 2.0. Had to make the change again in Eclipse. TortoiseHg 2.0, btw, looks beautiful. Nice work on the UI.

Further reading

• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RequiresFile
• http://javaforge.com/project/HGE
• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UpgradingMercurial
• http://www.jroller.com/andyl/entry/how_open_is_mercurialeclipse

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Ralph Towner — Witchitaito