Information about ECMerge and talk around comparison and merge subject
The plug-in to browse Mercurial repositories was updated, it now handles more cases correctly.
The idea behind these plug-ins is that you can thus compare a specific tag or revision in your Mercurial repository with your local hard drive, an FTP site but as well with a Visual Source Safe, a SubVersion or whichever other SCC that ECMerge supports (see SCC Tool Dialog Box).
This new plug-in version is included in the upcoming 2.2.106 version.
Have a good week
Armel
Binary diff is definitely not a simple affair.
We are working on the new differentiation engine. If you have any idea about what you’d like to have in the diff engine of your dreams it’s time to tell!
Regards
Armel
Mercurial is a distributed source code control (also known as Hg).
ECMerge is a differentiation and merge tool which let you generate comparison report amongst many other things, thus being able to list SCC repositories directly without the need for an intermediate “get files” step simplifies your life.
The Mercurial integration works by calling your hg.exe / hg binary (it is automatically found if it is present in your PATH environment variable, you can set the path as well in the Preferences/SCC Tools page). You then use the SCC Source dialog box to define URL looking like: hg:/<localpath-of-your-base-repo-dir>;type=db/<path-in-repository>. You can then browse directories and read files as they were at the various revisions.
You can install the Mercurial plug-in for ECMerge by getting the following file and copying it in your SCC sub-directory of the ECMerge installation directory : http://www.soft.elliecomputing.com/soft/ecmerge/scc/mercurial.xml
Try it, send us a feedback and you’ll get a 50% rebate for ECMerge (until January 1st 2010).
Regards
Armel
SCP is a secure protocol to transfer files based on SSH, SFTP (SSH FTP) is a newer SSH FTP with more directory and file operations integrated.
ECMerge does integrate a FTP supporting multiple parallel connection, but does not yet integrate a SCP or SFTP protocol client. However you can still use ECMerge to compare your files updated through these protocol. WinSCP is well known SCP/SFTP client which let you compare your files with the differ of your choice. The base differ is simply “fc” which is really basic.
To configure WinSCP for ECMerge, go to the Preferences panel, then the Commands page, the “File Compare” can be configured this way:
c:\progam files\ellié compuing\merge\guimerge.exe --mode=diff2 "!" "!^!"
Have a good week
Armel
We have a problem with Mercurial command line tool which seems not to like some “get” commands (‘cat’ command in hg.exe jargon) in parallel. We need to investigate more.
We’ll keep you updated a.s.a.p.
Regards
Armel
These days we are working on binary differentiation in ECMerge.
We have had already a few requests for features but we are sure we could cover more needs if we get more requests!
If you’d like to see something specific in our binary comparison, send us an email at info at elliecomputing.com or leave a comment here
Regards
Armel
This week we put on-line a quick tour of ECMerge features, you can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGaouB2IPw
You can download ECMerge from our homepage.
Regards
Armel
This day we built and released ECMerge 2.2.105.
This version fixes a bug in Xtract which would produce ‘zero’ bytes in some cases in text files (on some RTF files)… ECMerge would then treat the text files as binary files.
Build 2.2.105 contains the Brazilian translation.
Regards
Armel
Jorge Eduardo sent us a new version of its Brazilian Portuguese translation of ECMerge.
We will put it on-line soon 
Have a good week
Armel
